DVassallo

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Christopher Alexander Died(twitter.com)
3 points by DVassallo 5y ago|0 comments
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by DVassallo 5y ago
You can’t. (I just bought 12 acres 50mins within Seattle.)
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Making the Unpredictable, Predictable(dvassallo.medium.com)
1 points by DVassallo 5y ago|0 comments
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Variable income makes me smarter(dvassallo.medium.com)
1 points by DVassallo 5y ago|0 comments
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Making the Unpredictable Predictable(dvassallo.medium.com)
2 points by DVassallo 5y ago|0 comments
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747-sized asteroid skimmed by Earth, and scientists didn't see it coming(jpost.com)
28 points by DVassallo 5y ago|13 comments
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by DVassallo 5y ago
Just walked to say https://twitter.com/simonsarris (the author) is probably my favorite Twitter account. Go follow for a peek into the life of someone living a blissful existence.
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by DVassallo 5y ago
In my region, the material costs are just ~15% of the total cost to build. It's almost all labor costs.
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by DVassallo 5y ago
There’s a big difference between spec houses and custom houses. I’m building a custom home in King County, WA right now, and it’s almost impossible to build under $300/sqft. And no, doesn’t include cost of land or land preparation cost
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by DVassallo 5y ago
The price is $25, but I’ve experimented between $15 and $38. I spent about $8K on ads (Reddit) but most of my marketing was organic from my Twitter account initially, and later it was mostly word of mouth.
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by DVassallo 5y ago
As an example of that middle ground mentioned in the article, I spent 2 weeks writing a short technical book about AWS, self-published it, and sold 6,587 copies and $133,030 in sales in 1.5 years.
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by DVassallo 5y ago
This is not a layoff. This seems to be a situation where the 1/3rd minority was annoying the 2/3rd majority.
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After Going the VC Route, Gumroad Takes a Different Path in New Fundraising(news.crunchbase.com)
3 points by DVassallo 6y ago|0 comments
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by DVassallo 6y ago
Why is negative air pressure important?
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by DVassallo 6y ago
It can be self-hosted easily on AWS (it uses EC2, S3 and DynamoDB). It’s fully open source, MIT license.
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by DVassallo 6y ago
It was marginal, but it kicked in after around EUR 25K IIRC. There were only 2 rates. This was 2010.
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by DVassallo 6y ago
I wish :) I’m 37, with 2 kids (6 and 3).
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by DVassallo 6y ago
There’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 Gumroa
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by DVassallo 6y ago
When I lived in Ireland I paid 51% of my income in taxes. Imagine that!
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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
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by DVassallo 6y ago
I’m making $10K/mo for a quarter-time PM role at Gumroad (so about $250/hr).
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by DVassallo 6y ago
It’s actually a bit cheaper this year: https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1312177408879939584?s=2... It was one of the cheapest plan on the ACA marketplace in WA. It’s a very high deductible plan though: $13.6K.
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by DVassallo 6y ago
It’s a very high deductible plan ($13.6K) but otherwise had no problems with provider coverage. I’m in WA and the insurer is Molina. Found it through the ACA marketplace.
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by DVassallo 6y ago
I work quarter-time at Gumroad, and I pay for my own health insurance ($950/mo for a family of 4). If Gumroad offered it, I would almost certainly still keep my own (unless it was at >50% discount). I prefer not having my health ins
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by DVassallo 6y ago
Isn’t this like Amazon employees buying stuff from Amazon with their personal card?
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by DVassallo 6y ago
I only had some success with paid ads on reddit targeting r/aws, and it only lasted 3 months between March and June when competition was very low and I could get CPC rates around $0.10. From July onwards, I couldn't find availabil
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by DVassallo 6y ago
The sharp rise in April was primarily because I released my 2nd product. It's much more clear in this graph: https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1333888959399690241 Not sure if the pandemic helped; likely di
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by DVassallo 6y ago
I sell two products on Gumroad. One is an ebook about AWS, and the other is a 1.5hr video about building on audience. Sales past 12 months: $290K - Dec: $25K - Jan: $26K - Feb: $8K - Mar: $9K - Apr: $43K - May: $59K - Jun: $25K - Jul: $14
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by DVassallo 6y ago
I'm cited in the comments as an instance of this scheme [1]. If you want to see how I make it all work, check out my interview on Indie Hackers: https://www.indiehackers.com/podcast/177-daniel-vassallo [1] https:
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by DVassallo 6y ago
That guy is me. What would convince you that I'm not running a ponzi scheme or anything dishonest?

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