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Re:Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas? by goatherders on Saturday September 22, 2018 @09:45PM (#18048972)
100000% agree. Chances are the OP already has a number of finished things that he/she can sell. Sales and marketing sales and marketing sales and marketing.

I have 3 side businesses that make between a few hundred and a few thousand per month. All 3 sat idle for months after completion as I groused about no revenue. When i stopped building the next thing long enough to sell the finished things it really wasnt a problem.

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Re:Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas? by StevieIsMagic on Sunday September 23, 2018 @12:15AM (#18049369)
How did you initially go about selling these products? Cold calling? Ads?
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Re:Ask HN: How to come up with monetizable side project ideas? by goatherders on Sunday September 23, 2018 @01:08AM (#18049496)
Cold outreach. Built an email list using free email databases and linked in. Used Mailshake to create cadences to ask for a 5 minute call. Did the call myself to close the deal. I'm a sales person by training so that part wasnt hard for me once I got the engine going.
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