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No, I own a SaaS business and also sell my own products on Gumroad itself. In fact, the latter was my biggest income source in 2020 — $282K sales last year: htt
by DVassallo 6y ago
No, I own a SaaS business and also sell my own products on Gumroad itself. In fact, the latter was my biggest income source in 2020 — $282K sales last year: https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1333888186762678274 https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1333888186762678274
- asd9900 6y agoAnd you are not even 26? Congrats man, you made it :) That's more than I ever made in my life (close to 40).
- cambalache 6y agoThat is OP , not the person you are answering to
- the_jeremy 6y agoThe person who is under 26 is not the same person who posted their rates.
- ahmadss 6y agoI think the parent OP is different than Daniel. Daniel worked at Amazon / AWS for 8 years https://dvassallo.medium.com/only-intrinsic-motivation-lasts-92c0497cf97c https://dvassallo.medium.com/only-intrinsic-motivation-lasts...
- konjin 6y agoMoney is not how you count if you made it. I made as much as OP at that age (and am now a few years older) and I'm very far from making it. Millions don't go as far as they used to when everyone around you is even richer.
- cercatrova 6y agoWith all due respect, your comment suggests that you were spending beyond your means, or keeping up with the Joneses. Millions go very far if invested properly and drawn down properly so that the principal is never touched. If you're spending the millions instead, then yeah, that's definitely not gonna go far.
- konjin 6y agoThere's a huge trough in what you can do with what you can buy when you earn between $80k a year and ~$8m. It's the same shit just better. Your shitty commuter house 3 hours out of town is now a mansion 20 min outside of town. Your shitty 1990 ford fiesta is a very nice 2020 BMW. Your shitty healthcare plan is a great healthcare plan, but the main difference is how nice the plants at the doctors office are. If you want to get a divorce your new partner looks a lot better than your old one. Your furniture isn't chipboard from Ikea, it's hand made ethically sourced mahogany. Your flights aren't economy class, they are business+/first class. You don't have to run your washing machine, you pay someone to do it. If you want anything interesting, like say a nuclear reactor in your basement, or a jet two seater Canard, you can't afford it because no one makes it. Unless you have the connections to start a company to make them, or have literal billions lying around, you don't have the resources to do anything but live middle class+.
- dannyw 6y ago“Everything is better but I don’t get a nuclear warhead”.
- konjin 6y agoI don't want everything to be better. I want nuclear warheads. Nuclear reactors really, you can't imagine what you can do with a piece of derelict land when you throw enough power at it.
- austhrow743 6y agoSure if you try to go up in quality you hit diminishing returns. Not quantity though. $80k and you're working for the rest of your life. $8m and you retire at the end of the year.
- konjin 6y agoYou can retire on $80k too, it just happens to be in Afghanistan.
- DVassallo 6y agoI wish :) I’m 37, with 2 kids (6 and 3).
- jb_s 6y agoRespectfully - and I'm sure i'm just missing something - but I still don't actually understand what you do. The only thing I can see that makes you money is a subscription service to help people how make money on the Internet.
- DVassallo 6y agoThere’s a list of products on dvassallo.com. Lifetime revenue: - $190K - Everyone can Build a Twitter Audience - $125K - The Good Parts of AWS - $15K - Profit and Loss - $5K - Userbase I also made $50K freelancing, $40K of those from Gumroad. All started after Dec 2019.
- cercatrova 6y agoBooks, courses, info products mainly.