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While this is quite impressive and having been in the same boat myself once I have come to the conclusion that unless you're doing it as a hobby, creating and s
by superasn 9y ago
While this is quite impressive and having been in the same boat myself once I have come to the conclusion that unless you're doing it as a hobby, creating and shipping product is like 30% of your job.
The rest 70% 100x more important job is marketing, which speaking as a small business owner, consists of SEO, email marketing, side project marketing, blogging, contenting marketing, etc. Those are the actual time consuming often boring things that determine your project's success.
- marktangotango 9y agoIndeed, and this type of post is a very large part of the marketing this person is doing for their side projects. Front page of hackernews (as of now) will surely draw traffic to all the projects listed. The article is very lean on the "how" but very much about the "what" was done.
- j45 9y agoThe 70% that you are referring to is the attempt to make a project into a product. Not all projects are products, though.