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Re:Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable by slimier on Thursday February 03, 2011 @12:09PM (#2175502)
What was your plan had this flopped and you only had a few sales by the time you had to start shipping items? could you have brought down to a per-unit basis? did you have an exit strategy if it didn't seem worth your time?
Re:Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable by guynamedloren on Thursday February 03, 2011 @01:19PM (#2175881)
Paypal has a wonderful thing called a refund button. Had things not worked out, all I would have to do is hit that a few times and I'm right back where I started, with no loss except $8 and some time.

Talk about minimizing risk, huh?

Re:Show HN: My 4-hour project, already profitable by salemh on Thursday February 03, 2011 @07:50PM (#2177787)
Others thoughts on this as an acceptable practice? I don't think "personal branding" comes into this play / project, but it could in the future.