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I would wager that just about EVERYTHING in literature, tech & art has been created by "Standing on the shoulders of giants"

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standing_on_the_shoulders_of_gi...

LOL. That may be a step too far ;)

Affiliates are generating revenue by helping promote tweetminer. The software used is http://www.idevdirect.com

Yeah. The lump sum transactions are not pro-rata they are logged as in the month they happened.

TweetMiner has been a side project for the past 3 months - I've been averaging about 2-4 hours work on it per day

1st Line of code August 10th 1st Signup September 13th (34 days to go beta) 1st Sale October 17th (68 days to first sale - 1 month beta) 1st $1000 November 17th (98 days to $1000)

About 500 beta testers signed up. Very few converted because I gave them all a free pass for one year.

Here's the paypal links I used to get things up and running...

https://www.paypal.com/en_US/ebook/subscriptions/html.html https://www.paypal.com/en_US/ebook/subscriptions/Appx-ipn_su... https://cms.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/?cmd=_render-content&c...

FYI - First sale was on Oct 17th which probably accounts for the variance :)

Oops! There's a slight bug in the customers by plan stats code. The real number of customers is 51 (2.8%) -- listed on the customers line -- (bug fixed now)

Getting from the first line of code to $1000 revenue is the hardest part of ANY business. Think about it. Google. Facebook. Twitter.

TweetMiner did that in 98 days. That's VERY rare for a web startup, especially for a part time project in a space that everyone says is not monetizeable.

Sometimes it's not about the amount of revenue - it's more about what the business proves. After that it's just a question of scaling and not f*ing up...

I want to add something to this discussion. Something I certainly did not expect would happen. Since I released the revenue figures publicly I have had three angels contact me saying "what are your plans, are you looking for any investment". Imagine that! Angels perusing me!!

As I say it wasn't intended - but it's a nice side note.

Yes, I've been very motivated by balsamiq - but another big reason is because we talk about it weekly on our tech podcast http://techzinglive.com - the main reason is because this is exactly the kind of data I wish I had been able to see when starting my earlier one man businesses

http://tweetminer.net/stats -- I spent $zero! :)

(check out http://techzinglive.com for weekly updates on how the business has been built)

Oops I guess the domain was an original cost $9