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by 20years 9y ago
Exactly! SQL was never dead.
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by 20years 9y ago
My now 13 year old son first started at age 9 through Minecraft hacking away at mods. More recently he moved into creating JavaScript games and creating Raspberry Pi projects with Python. Our latest project is a retro arcade system built wi
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by 20years 9y ago
I think a lot of this comes down to the sector they were going after. Speaking from experience, software for Plumbers, Roofers, Pest Control, Cleaners and most home improvement type sectors are really hard to scale. It really is an up-hill
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by 20years 9y ago
Yes to all your points :)
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by 20years 9y ago
3 of the 4 are making money. Honestly, I don't really understand it when people say they have a hard time coming up with ideas. Ideas are all around you if you are willing to pay attention and look around. IMO ideas are easy, taking ac
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by 20years 9y ago
You control this using the Return-Path option in your email headers.
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by 20years 9y ago
You can configure your email sending with a reply-to email (example customers@mydomain.com) and not have auto replies or bounces go to that reply-to address. The auto replies will go to the envelope sender email. I prefer to set that to som
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by 20years 9y ago
I have built multiple SaaS products. I spend about a month building the first version. I get that out in front of users and continue to build upon it if I see traction and based on feedback. If traction isn't there or it becomes obviou
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by 20years 9y ago
As of 2015 Craigslist was valued at an estimated $5 billion and had annual revenues in excess of $381 million. Not sure what it is today 2 years later but my guess is more now. Plus CL has been around for 20 years now. It is a cash cow and
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by 20years 9y ago
Search engines, social media, videos, content, etc. A variety of different ways.
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by 20years 9y ago
I had a similar experience when I released an open source real estate search plugin for Wordpress years ago. It gained traction and was covered by a few very prominent real estate blogs/news sites which resulted in over 10,000 download
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by 20years 9y ago
Custom Woocommerce implementation on Wordpress. Custom plugins for automating things such as shipping labels, packing slips, etc. Hosted on DigitalOcean. No drop shipping. We spend about 20 to 30 minutes per week packing and shipping invent
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by 20years 9y ago
Cool story. Congrats on this accomplishment especially considering you only started learning how to program in 2014. Most people have a hard time even shipping a product. You did that and made money on it. Awesome!
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by 20years 9y ago
Small ecommerce site selling fidget spinners. It's sold $4k worth of fidget spinners in the past 2 months. Hosting costs $10/mo Shipping & support take about 5 to 10 hours total per month. I started this with my 13 year old so
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by 20years 9y ago
Does anyone know if Jeff has made these types of investments in other companies? The return rate he got is really good. Granted, most other SaaS companies are not as successful or stick around as long as Basecamp but I wonder if that would
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by 20years 9y ago
"All else being equal, someone with a relevant degree will have an easier time being a successful entrepreneur" I think that is where we may disagree. Plenty of Entrepreneurs who made it big without a degree. Some of the top of ou
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by 20years 9y ago
"A fully qualified engineer will be in a much better position to provide valuable products and services than an 18 year old noob." Not sure I totally agree with this. I have meet a ton of very smart fully qualified engineers who h
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by 20years 9y ago
"you need to nurture the entrepreneur in your child before giving them the money." This is key imo. Even if it means starting small little business type things like selling candy at school. Teach them how to keep track of profit&#
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by 20years 9y ago
I agree with everything you said. I am also not convinced that "these online courses are 100% independently viable" especially for the younger kids. I didn't think this a year ago but my opinion has really changed since havin
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by 20years 9y ago
Exactly this! I think I fall mostly into your #2. I have been self employed for 15 years and for the past year have been volunteering at my sons middle school 1 hour per week. I am not retired but have financial stability from my own busine
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by 20years 9y ago
I think a lot of the times what is missing in this conversation is the need to first get teachers in the classroom that know how to code and want to teach it. Unfortunately a teachers salary is much, much lower than what someone who does kn
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by 20years 9y ago
Held for 180-day period. Far longer than needed for customers to get returns and far from sane imo.
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by 20years 9y ago
Wasn't rude in my initial reply. Just the opposite actually. *Edit - It was the 3rd go around with their support before I started to get rude and pointed out a ton of Chinese products. By this time it was a week after they closed my sh
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by 20years 9y ago
Thanks! I will check them out.
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by 20years 9y ago
I did email them but when I pointed out the Chinese knockoffs, that didn't go over too well. I guess I could have handled my response differently but come on! The fact that they closed my shop without pre-warning when I had sales along
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by 20years 9y ago
I tried using Etsy only to have them close my shop due to my products "not being handcrafted" according to them. These were small things that I 3D printed and people were actually buying. They shut me down but allowed similar endl
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by 20years 9y ago
Does anyone think that Amazon could be eying Uber but waiting for them to lose value? Seems like it would be a natural fit for their delivery network especially considering their recent purchase of Whole Foods.
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by 20years 9y ago
It was a site about Minecraft mods which don't garner as much traffic as they once did. I did consider selling it at one point and even spoke with a web broker. The biggest concerns were trademark stuff especially now that Microsoft ow
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by 20years 9y ago
Thanks. I don't run either anymore. The TV show site started off as a side project to train a new employee and ended up turning into a nice little business for awhile. When summer hit, the site plummeted in traffic & revenue and wh
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by 20years 9y ago
Every single one of your pages I visited shows me a remarketing ad. This tells me that Google can't find good matching advertisers for your content so they show remarketing ads instead. Remarketing ads always pay out much, much less.

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