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I've got two cash flow positive side-projects while maintaining full-time employment, having a life, wife, and kid. BreezyPDF - https://breezypdf.com https://b
by deedubaya 8y ago
I've got two cash flow positive side-projects while maintaining full-time employment, having a life, wife, and kid.
BreezyPDF - https://breezypdf.com https://breezypdf.com - Dead simple PDF generation from URLs. Comes with a rails middleware so all you have to do is add .pdf to the end of a URL to download a PDF of that URL.
HOALife - https://hoalife.com https://hoalife.com - A CC&R Inspection and Enforcement tool for property managers.
- elboru 8y agoWas it difficult to get the early users? What did you do to get them to use your websites?
- deedubaya 8y agoThe first users were insanely hard to get. Getting new users never gets easy, but less-hard as you go. First users were usually contacts that I had made within the spaces prior to building. Then old-fashioned marketing and sales pipelines.
- redhale 8y agoI love how one of the Breezy testimonials is from HOALife. Way to dog-food!
- deedubaya 8y agoHa, I should probably update those to customers that are less biased
- quickthrower2 8y agoYou are not the first, you won't be the last :-)
- ed_at_work 8y agoDon't worry OP, your secret is safe with us
- quickthrower2 8y agoI'm impressed at the HOALife being a side project. I've worked at companies doing something similar (different country) and it's a full time job maintaining and adding features to apps like that. If you are doing all the coding, marketing, web design, payment processing and support (and in my experience people want stuff fixed quick because they have inspections to do or they get kinda angry) in your spare time I really don't know how you do it, unless you are teaming up, employing people or just ridiculously efficient.
- deedubaya 8y agoI do all the coding design and support, and some marketing and sales. I have a co-founder for HOALife that does a lot of the day-to-day work (his side-gig too)!
- taylorhou 8y agowhoa. huge props for HOALife. any interest in selling? I'm interested in acquiring =) we're a growing player in the property services niche looking at different entry points into hoa's
- Random_Person 8y agoDamn, I spent all night last night trying to get jspdf to work for me and gave up. Breezy looks like exactly what I needed! Serendipity.