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I quit my job. Shipped 2 products. Launched a Services business. Now what?
- Tawheed 16y agoI know this article is quite lengthy. Any feedback you have on my thinking process would be awesome and much appreciated.
- nestlequ1k 16y agoInteresting post. How many users vs paid users do you have on your current products?
- Tawheed 16y agoTout has about 700 users, and about ~15 paid users @ $30, with a good number of people "waiting" for a lower priced solo plan. Braintrust has a higher number of users, but most of them are no longer active -- so I've stopped looking too hard until the re-launch.
- richcollins 16y agoCongrats on getting people to pay. The biggest surprise the first time that you create a product is how hard it is to even get anyone to use it frequently, let alone pay.
- Tawheed 16y agoRight. I try to define and track atleast one metric that gauges how sticky and useful my products are. For Braintrust, I track # of edits, for Tout, I track # of emails sent.
- noodle 16y agoso, then, does the majority of your income come from consulting?
- kleinsch 16y agoI liked the detailed look at what your values are and how that ties into your goals. After talking with some friends recently, I went through this exercise and it helped me come up with a logical set of short-term goals that will get me to where I want to be.
- duffbeer703 16y agoI think this article really captured why it is so important to be honest with yourself. Instead of making work your life, you found a way to make life your work. How many people are wearing golden handcuffs and wasting their life away out of inertia? How many brilliant people apply themselves to make informed decisions and do amazing things at work, and treat life as an afterthought? Your story is inspiring, and thanks for sharing it.
- wallflower 16y ago> I want to reduce the number of clients or simultaneous projects to TWO at most. So, true. The thing most people don't realize about freelancing is that juggling projects is a massive context switch. And, it is very bad, to continue the juggling metaphor, to drop a client deliverable while juggling clients.
- redrory 16y agoAs much as I cringed when I saw the "Now what?". I loved that post. So motivational. Mainstreet and Tout are simple but brillant ideas. Keep up the good work man.
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- TylerBrock 16y agoHey man, met you at startup weekend when you pitched main street, very cool, congratulations!
- erreon 16y agoThis is amazingly interesting and inspiring for me. It's my intention to put out a simple web app every month or two this year. I've been piddling with programming languages for years and this year was my first year to put out anything public. Reading things like this excites me even though we come from completely different positions in life.
- klbarry 16y agoMainstreet looks great for reselling and Tout looks really friggen awesome, I wish I heard of them earlier.