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Hopefully it can just cover some basic costs. The goal isn't to build a $1B business round it. Just to cover some basics, so it makes sense to allocate time. If it doesn't work, it doesn't work.

that is the goal, but working 1-on-1 with a non profit first allows me to learn all the needs so that the platform can have all the stuff they want vs what I think they want.

Varies from 5 to 6-figures/y, working mainly for large companies, mostly in the edtech space. (http://jibly.com)

Yes. Zero upfront costs

Ah, good feedback, tnx. What would be a no-brainer monthly price point?

Thanks for the honesty, let me give you some practical advice and maybe a birdseye view of your situation (or at least how I think about it)

- From your wording, I think you're looking too far ahead in the future, emphasising the long journey ahead of you.

- What I'd suggest you doing, is, kind of like this little post, start extremely TINY.

1. Pick a field you're interested in. Don't overthink it, you don't have to spend the rest of your life with this one decision. Just pick 1 thing in the next 8 seconds. It's just a tiny little experiment.

2. Find a non-profit organisation within that category that you can support with voluntary work. Again... don't overdo it. Just helping them spread the word, or simply sending them an email of appreciation for the work they're doing is a great start.

3. From the action you take in step 2, use the positive feeling you've gained to do an other tiny act of goodness. Potentially write about each tiny action you take, and keep a blog about those positive feeling/findings/etc.

I'm curious to follow your journey.

Small steps ahead, and before you know it, you can look back at a long trail of awesomeness, appreciating how you got there. Instead of looking to the future, not knowing how to get there.

send me an email

I don't know a lot about your specific market, but here's what you could do:

- Start writing. A blog, newsletter, what ever. Start today

- The goal is to build an audience around your writing. Focus on what you know best, and write for a specific type of customer

- Don't focus on getting thousands of readers, having 20, 50, 70 people is enough to learn about the problems people have in your industry - identify the problem, build a solution for your group of readers (could be a course, SaaS, etc.) product may not be free. Put a solid price tag on it.

- If people pay, and your product seems to solve a real pinpoint, focus more effort on promoting it and attracting more of the same kinds of customers. Go at it slowly.

- Don't take investments, loans or other things that will only put more weight on your shoulders.

- Start spending just 2-3 hours a week, today and just stick with it.

Taking a little side road here, but the question of being 'too old' for something is a limiting belief you should squash, right now! Here's a super inspiring infographic that answers the question 'Am I too Old to Start', in the context of entrepreneurship. Browse through those names and ages. You'll find motivation to pursuit your own things, despite your age.

My daughter has been smiling all day. I guess that's mission accomplished :D

Why don't you build a tiny real-time app first. Maybe this will help: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9FPkN6ETqes

I'm currently reading this: https://www.amazon.com/Creativity-Sale-Wearing-T-Shirts-Pass...

It 's seriously a fun, easy and inspiring read. I would recommend for any maker/hacker. (That's not an affiliate link nor am I connected in any form or shape to the author)

I didn't want to limit what people would ask for and even if I'm not able to do it myself, maybe I could point people in the right direction.

done

I actually already do that. Not specifically through those websites though. I wish more would do the same.

I could ping my friends phones, though they probably won't appreciate me spamming them or giving away their personal data (phone number). So probably not a reasonable thing to do :)

you're right. updated

haven't really set anything up yet

Awesome, send me a msg (mail can be found in my profile). Let's see if we can collect a few folks who want to join.

different organisation, same business model. That's just like saying that anybody who sells ads on their website is spamming HN because others have posted products that make money with ads.

correction: they are free downloads

Would be an interesting project to follow. An even more interesting journey would be to document the entire process and only use/make open source products as a replacement of each Google product.