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That's true, especially for physical products.

You are right. Thanks!

It links to a form, cause we need to moderate campaigns. Just describe your projects and Dima will answer.

For 5 years i worked as an investment analyst for a global accelerator. A few months ago i left the job to ship my own products. Datastarta is the first one.

During the accelerator journey, I met thousands of startups and hundreds of investors from many countries. Some of them were looking to work with accelerators. From my experience, 50% of startups who apply to an accelerator actually need a program. Another part is strong enough, has a great team and just want to setup meetings with seed investors on a demo day. Why spend 3-6 months to do that?

I set down for a month and made a solid research on markets I know. I collect a lot of data, structured it, analyzed and decided to launch the first product as a database of angel investors from around the world.

http://datastarta.com — launched 3 months ago. The last month was $1350. I spent a month and $29 (domain + bubble) to build an MVP.

Thanks! I use Bootstrap.

I made a site that aggregates 60 indie books on business by entrepreneurs. 40 more books are in a queue. If you want to add a book that should be on the site, please use «submit» button.

Thanks for this ideas! I will try.

It's large enough for a founder who run a project by himself, i guess. I don't know churn rate and lifetime value can be $20 or $40.

Thank you, Chris. Very helpful reply. Will follow you and write a little bit later.

No worries, it's ok. Summary isn't a book, it's like an article where we are describing what's inside using our own words.

Thanks! I know them. As i see i need to focus on Individual plans only. Will set up an experiment.

I have a legal support, i don't break rules.

These new media is awesome.

> 4. Create a SaaS product that solves a consumer or business problem in a given niche...

Like it. Let me share my story.

Six months ago i read articles how Buffer, Drip and ConvertKit started and got an inspiration to do a SaaS project.

I love reading and trying to hack the process using different tools and projects. Some of them worked, some not, but no one gave me back.

The question was: to make a reading habit? And i found an answer: bite-sized reading — 5-10 minutes a day.

Next steps:

— i bought a domain (https://bookcelerator.com/summary) for $12;

— hire a freelancer to craft summaries of books a want to read ($35/summary, $70 total): «Zero to one» and «Hooked»;

— created accounts on Mailchimp and Paddle (payment provider);

— and launched an automation.

It took me 10 days to read summaries by myself, broken down into 5-minute daily emails. Then i realized i really like the process and it helps me with my reading habit. I posted a link and my story to Facebook and Twitter and got first 4 clients from my network. Now Bookcelerator is $200 MRR in two months, has 5 summaries to read (i will post 3 more on every weekend).

The problem is i don't know how to grow to $1k to quit my job and make it the full-time project.

Thanks! Is it possible to make a partnership with you? I'm working on a book project.

It's really nice.

Some people work in gardens after office, Pieter do 3D...

Is it a marketplace?

Why don't use freemium model?