1hakr
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Visa list has both government website and visa agency link. Users can choose to use what is convenient for them. Visa list also provides all document requirements so anyone can do it themselves.
When I see a potential problem, see if I can solve it. See if it's already being solved, if not I pitch the idea to few people. If at least 50% got excited. I pick this idea to build.
You can find problems in your day to day life. Travelling is another way of discovering new problems. Every problem is not worth building a solution for. Only the burning ones with business potential.
I love solving problems by building solutions. I Travel every now and then. Make a backlog of new ideas, keep pitching them to friends, work on my current one. One step at a time. I took things very slowly instead of rushing and getting into pressure.
Yes there were a few. But I try to always keep the cost of failure small.
This is how I try to be frugal.
* I see a potential problem, see if I can solve it. See if it's already being solved, if not I pitch the idea to few people. If atleast 50% got excited. I pick this idea to build
* I set a goal on day 1 on what the microstartup should
achieve once its launched. * I try to take no more than 4 weeks to build it.
* I do a public launch in IH, PH, Twitter, LinkedIn, Facebook and Reddit. In few weeks if I reach the goal that I set at the beginning, then I continue working on it to improve. If not then I will drop it and move on the next.
You have objective in making this choice, most people cling on to the sentiment.
My general approach is t make my business fully automated. Once i do that, i have time to thing in different directions.
Organic channels are your lifesavers, the ones which will make your microstartup successful, so start working on them from day 1.
I have few things planned for 2022.
i use cloudflare and host it on GCP, i dont use automation tools. I have my backend on GoLang and its pretty good, never had to scale my servers sofar except in the very beginning.
Cheers mate! Its summation of my microstartups in 2021. ACrypto is actually available on both android and ios. you can check it out
https://acrypto.io/
cloudflare is a life saver!
True and its available for phones, tablets, TV's and watches
Thanks for the suggestion mate, Appreciate your gesture.
Its different for different for different microstartup. Everything i did is through organic channels for Visa List it SEO for Apps its ASO. Once i got the users, it was easy to tweak and optimise revenue generation.
I see a potential problem, see if I can solve it. See if it's already being solved, if not I pitch the idea to few people. If atleast 50% got excited. I pick this idea to build.
I set a goal on day 1 on what the microstartup should achieve once its launched. Traction is something you define for yourself and your product.
I would always try to do a quick launch, take no more than 4 weeks and launch it on PH, IH, Reddit, LinkedIn. The long term growth strategies are entirely different thing. But you will get basic validation. You are trying to fail fast.
affiliate, subscription ands ads
There are four things need to have a potential microstartup.
#1 Problem that has business potential and big enough
#2 Audience who has that burning problem
#3 Distribution channel to get the solution into users hands
#4 Business model aka pricing fit for the Problem-Audience
added tech stack to the post but i always learnt things based on what was need to built my microstartup.
One thing which worked for me when i look back is, i spend less than 4 weeks to validate an idea, if it got traction, i worked on it more, if it didn't then i moved on. Validate and fail fast.
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1hakr on Monday January 03, 2022 @10:31PM
from the self-post dept.
Hello everyone,I’m Hari, and I’m a serial Microstartup Maker. 2021 has been an amazing year despite the pandemic where I reached my recent goal of $500/day. Compounding works everywhere, even in microstartups. It took 3 years to reach to $300/day but just 4 months to $500/day. The business model of my microstartups is a mix of App sales, subscriptions, affiliates and ads. I'm now spending just...
It's pretty spread out across 50+ countries but on the top three is US and UK
i have created script which monitor government websites. for apps i bought all types of devices to test.
when you begin, if you start testing every small thing, it becomes quite easy when you finish. If you get a big bug, you can always revert.
i dont do any paid marketing
I was working a product manager before, then I quit my job and started full time on my microstartups.
I use vuejs, nodejs and golang for web apps. Java and swift for mobile apps.
I mostly use firebase and GCP because they are easy to use