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Re:Ask HN: Favorite Blogs by Individuals?
on Thursday May 27, 2021 @09:29AM (#27302820)
https://blog.openstartuplist.com/ Open Startup List blog
https://tinyprojects.dev/blog tiny projects blog
http://hummusrezept.de/ food recipes blog
https://nav.al/ Tech investments blog
Re:Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @06:20AM (#27206646)
I also looked on indiemaker and flippa, but microacquire was the only one where you dont need to pay to list your project and talk to potential buyers.. big plus
Re:Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:30AM (#27206313)
My side-project only had ~500 email subscribers, no MRR, but pretty good domain authority because it marketed itself.
And still it got acquired only after 3 months!
Re:Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @05:00AM (#27206133)
I sold my tiny project on microacquire marketplace, last time I checked there were even more low priced projects there, indeed it's an awesome way to experience an "EXIT" on a smaller scale :)
Re:Selling Tiny Internet Projects for Fun and Profit
on Wednesday May 19, 2021 @04:54AM (#27206096)
For relatively "small" amount of money, I totally agree. However, from my experience selling a tiny project [1], buyers were reluctant to transfer in advance even sums that are below $10K. Therefore we also used Escrow.com..
[1] I wrote more about my experience in my ebook - https://gum.co/side-project
Re:Show HN: I wrote a book about my side-project
on Monday March 29, 2021 @08:54AM (#26620812)
Hey,
Thanks for the comment, I attached the table-of-contents [1] below, you can see there is no such chapter :)
I agree, I also despise books that claim to take you from 0 to 100 in no time and/or teach you how to make lots of money.
In the description I clearly state that I'm sharing my personal story, which consists of practical advice, I don't make any promises. Even the book title doesn't promise anything, or says "How to..", but rather encourages you to start a side-project / side-hustle.
The goal of this book was to share my experience of building, running and selling a small side-project. So far I got good reviews and people whom I asked for feedback have clearly said that they enjoyed my book and would recommend :)
[1] Table-of-contents:
1. Introduction 2. Background - My 1st online endeavor and takeaways - My 2nd online endeavor and takeaways - From e-commerce to software side-projects - Idea 3. Building - Technology - Build fast - Launch like a boss 4. Growing - Target market - Organic marketing - It's what you give - Monetization attempts 5. Selling - Should I sell - Everything's got a price - How to sell - Logistics 6. Post-acquisition
Re:Show HN: I wrote a book about my side-project
on Wednesday March 24, 2021 @04:27PM (#26572460)
Hey all,
I wrote a short and to-the-point book about my "adventure" of finding an interesting idea for a side-project (hence the name of the book), building upon this idea, marketing the project (while learning marketing) and eventually selling it to another entrepreneur (as a first "acquisition" experience).
The book entails interesting bits of information as I you read along this journey that took me 3 months from ideation to acquisiton.
I would love to hear your feedback about it! :)
Donated 50 Trees from Earnings
I've reached the milestone of donating 50 trees from my Gumroad earnings of my E-book Start With A Side-Project. Each tree was gifted to a buyer, so they received a nice E-card with a thank you note :)For visualisation, here are 50 trees:I'm not an environmental activist but you just can't stay indifferent and ignore the state of our planet, here is a video about the destruction of the Amazon...
Start with Tiny Products
I didn't start with 10 years of experience in the industry or by being genius. I started by exploring. It is the path that we take which is the interesting part in life, not the end of the road.When I first thought about Open Startup List, it was from pure interest in learning, and thinking broad and "out of the box".When I set out to build the idea, while other similar sites existed, it was my...
Launched on AppSumo
Re:From one side-hustle to another
on Monday August 31, 2020 @05:23PM (#24336103)
You can find the book on Gumroad and on Amazon:
1) gum.co/side-project
2) https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DN58X4X
From one side-hustle to another
Hey hustlers,I created Open Startup List because I found the open startups culture intriguing. Founders that share openly about their marketing efforts, their failures or success, metrics like income and traffic, is just something that we as hustlers can learn a lot from.I built the initial version of OSL within a week, and put a lot of effort into marketing, added a blog section and grew...
Donated trees in the Amazon Rainforest for each sale
When I first decided to write and publish a book [1] about my experiences of building, marketing and selling a side-project, I've also decided that I would use some of the revenue for a good cause.About a year back, I came across videos [2] that show the destruction of the Amazon forest and its animal inhabitants.It is in our responsibility, absolutely everybody, to take a good care for the...
Patreon CEO shares his most epic failures
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zf5rKTCMNnUIt is very inspirational and shows us once more, that the path to success is not a lucky shot, but rather a path intertwined with ups and downs along the way.From my personal experience (which I'm writing about [1]), I can also relate and say that those "up" moments come in waves. It takes time, will, and effort to make those waves increase in volume,...
Any Self Publishers?
Just curious to see how many makers take the challenge of self publishing :)I'm about to self publish soon myself - https://gum.co/side-project
About to self publish my first book [Motivational post]
5 tips and motivation for all aspiring Indie Hackers:Never doubt yourself. It is your self perception that either limits yourself or give you "wings".I sold 13 books so far (Pre launch stage). This was only possible because I was out there. There are million books - so what. There are million authors - so what. Start with something. Plant the seed and grow.Any achievement is an achievement. Be...
The Power of Writing (An eBook)
I'm currently writing my first eBook about my experience of pushing a product into market and eventually selling it after 3 months of work.Writing the eBook allows me to formulate my thoughts and get a different perspective on my choices and my thought-process in the project 3-months period.For example, the background chapter lists 2 experiences I had with online entrepreneurship before. While...
Re:Should I also sell on Amazon?
on Thursday July 09, 2020 @07:13AM (#23778916)
For anyone curious, here is the eBook https://gum.co/side-project
Should I also sell on Amazon?
I'm writing my first eBook about micro-entrepreneurship that's called Start With A Side-Project.So far I'm only offering it on Gumroad, I actively promote it since I'm a first-time author so I don't expect to be recommended by Gumroad.How does the discoverability on Amazon works? Will I have to put efforts promoting it there as well? I might as well just focus on promoting my Gumroad page...
Re:Sold My Side Project
on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:53AM (#23758221)
Thanks!
Re:Sold My Side Project
on Tuesday July 07, 2020 @07:53AM (#23758218)
I've decided to sell since I wanted to work on other projects but didn't have enough time to invest in all of them.
It's the first side-project I've sold.
I will be releasing my ebook (https://gum.co/side-project) at the end of this month sharing my experiences of building and selling this side-project along with actionable advice.
Sold My Side Project
It’s been 3 months since I launched Open Startup List, what an incredible milestone, a time in which I built, marketed and now, sold the project.I'm currently writing an ebook on my journey of building and growing my side-project. You can check it out on gumroad: https://gum.co/side-project
Re:Use the tools you already know – thats how Simple Analytics reached...
on Monday May 18, 2020 @10:25AM (#23222658)
Adriaan from Simple Analytics shared tips on how to bootstrap your business to success and the story of how he went about growing Simple Analytics to a successful privacy-first business that makes $5.7K in MRR.
Use the tools you already know – thats how Simple Analytics reached $5.7K MRR
Show HN: “Leave Me Alone” founders built a 840$ MRR as nomads in South America
Re:A content platform startup handles Corona (Learn from a leading fou...
on Sunday May 03, 2020 @02:41PM (#23060966)
Rich from Failory shares with us how he handles the Corona situation. It's quite interesting to learn about his experiences.
A content platform startup handles Corona (Learn from a leading founder)
Re:Startups for Remote Nomads handle Corona (Learn from a leading foun...
on Thursday April 30, 2020 @04:45PM (#23035889)
Pieter Levels of Nomad List and Remote OK share how it's like running two businesses in the midst of the Corona. He handles it pretty well I must say.