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Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by xhfloz on Sunday September 24, 2023 @06:43PM (#37637882)
Left my job in 2020 to do the same. Nowhere near as profitable as OP, but now make enough to cover rent + basic expenses in New York. Crucially: I didn't want to do hypeman social media content that (a) sold the dream of solopreneur as a marketing tactic, or (b) added excessive noise into the ether.

I'm not saying Tony did either -- I haven't followed along -- but certainly a lot of people do. I can't fully blame the people who do, though.

Anyway. The project I've built [1] is still going, and I feel proud of it on merits of software: that it pushes the bounds, however slightly; that it feels good to exist in the world; and that I genuinely care for the people using it.

All that's to say: I think there's a software solopreneur path that doesn't involve excessive hype, gross self-promotion (some degree of self-branding is necessary though), while allowing you to work by principles and also explore interesting software problems.

Feel free to DM me [2] if you have questions, or are interested in bootstrapping your own project. Especially consumer-facing. I do have some writing online [3] that covers this too.

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[1] https://mmm.page

[2] https://twitter.com/xhfloz

[3] https://woolgather.sh

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Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by skwee357 on Sunday September 24, 2023 @07:16PM (#37638084)
Thanks for sharing! DMed you on twitter
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Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by xhfloz on Sunday September 24, 2023 @07:19PM (#37638094)
Hey! FYI haven't seen anything in my inbox yet.
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Re:My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years by abareplace on Monday September 25, 2023 @08:20AM (#37642560)
Thank you. Unfortunately, my experience is the same: it's hard to promote a software project on today's Internet without investing a lot of money or spending 4 hours/day on social media like the original poster did. There are many interesting projects like yours that remain invisible to their potential users.
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