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I'm running as side project
Built it during the lockdown in spring and its a enhancement for Quickbooks Online. Allows companies to ask request for quotations from their suppliers.
- Time Tracking & Invoicing Software. Floating around the 1K mark. Been stuck here for a bit, struggling to get any more traction.
Have you added a way to integrate the data to accounting applications like QBO ?
Still working my day development job and now doing about $150k/month in a side project with 10 employees.
- make lists and use them!
- block lunches use them for meetings
- have day job pay your healthcare
- day job work stops on time! no meetings before 9 or after 5
- leverage your “No” to all frivolous time wasters
- focus on day job, side project, family, one hobby for exercise (4-6 hrs/ week)
- get really good at delegating and automating tasks
- hire overseas contractors to do menial, repetitive tasks that can’t be automated
- don’t sell software instead find something “real” that can be enhanced with software
- identify a customer and charge upfront; it’s the only way you’ll learn
Care to share what you are building?
> don’t sell software instead find something “real” that can be enhanced with software
Expand? :)
It seems this question hasn't been asked for some time
You mean since last week?
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24859111
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I would really, really appreciate seeing submissions here.
No one would tell you their niche money making idea.
Why??
Dosnt the tech community believe ideas are dime a dozen?
Reminds me of Headlime's founder, who was kind enough to share his journey, but instead people copied his work/content (and had the audacity to ask for his advice) and then launched their own competing services that are downright identical.
That said, I don't know what else can be done differently, since Headlime seems to lack a protective technical moat. His story is certainly inspiring though.
I remember once upon a time I took a stab at spec work on 99designs. All the designs were sucky, but the contest holder commented he liked the direction my design was heading.
Within 24 hours all the other entrants copied it. That was my last foray into sharing my work. Of course, I knew this was the game, but I summarily bounced from playing that game ever again.
Don’t share your stuff until you are literally done getting what you intended to get (a job, money, credit, etc). It’s not a small community anymore, and people will copy everything.
You ain’t copying my shit, even if it sucks. Come up with your own sucky thing on your own.
It's very easy for niches to be overrun with folks once people get wind of it.
They are no longer just ideas. They would be sharing executions and proof of market demand.