czue

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   by czue 6y ago

   Thanks for the kind words and you're welcome!
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   by czue 6y ago

   Thanks!
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   by czue 6y ago

   Thanks!
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   by czue 6y ago

   Lol, yep! March-May was brutal for the site and it still hasn't come close to fully recovering
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   by czue 6y ago

   I track all writing that I do specifically for content marketing (e.g. the guides I linked above) as marketing time toward the product. I don't count time writing on my personal blog on this chart - though I do track it - since it&#x27
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   by czue 6y ago

   Ha! It doesn't generate much, but yeah, I was surprised too!
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   by czue 6y ago

   I reach people mostly via SEO and content marketing. I started publishing articles about Django development back in 2018, and this year I spent a lot of time working on a series of guides to building a SaaS with Django[1] - basically docume
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   by czue 6y ago

   Thanks! I took a six-month sabbatical in 2017 to get things off the ground, and then returned to work at ~50% later in the year. To compensate for the lost income, I did freelance consulting, though have scaled that down as the products hav
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   by czue 6y ago

   I'm convinced my SaaS starter kit Pegasus[1] still has a ton of potential, so am planning on keeping it the focus of 2021 - and possibly building some adjacent products for the Pegasus audience/customer base (e.g. Django education
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    by czue 6y ago

    Thanks!
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    by czue 6y ago

    Started as fun, now becoming significant.
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    by czue 6y ago

    Assuming you are a developer with no marketing experience - promote yourself/your project to the point that makes you uncomfortable. Most people will submit something to HN, it won't get traction, and then they give up thinking th
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    by czue 6y ago

    I use toggl ( https://toggl.com/ ). Can't recommend them highly enough and their free tier is amazing for a solo-person. For forming a habit 1) live tracking is essential and 2) make it as easy on yourself as possible. W
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    by czue 6y ago

    Stripe. Everything is registered under an LLC, and Stripe provides the necessary tax forms and such.
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    by czue 6y ago

    It was almost 100% the latter (built the app first then did SEO). Back when I started I didn't know anything about SEO or even how to know if something was "low competition". I only figured out how to do keyword research seve
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    by czue 6y ago

    I've been doing the solopreneur / indie hacking thing on the side for the last 4 years, including meticulously tracking my time spent on each project. I find that seeing the data to be a useful reminder that product businesses can
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    Show HN: Four years of profitable side-projects(coryzue.com)

    145 points by czue 6y ago|33 comments
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    by czue 6y ago

    When you say "tell webpack where to put the files" what do you mean exactly? I recommend just making one bundle per "app" (can be configured as different entry points in your webpack config), and then using the outputs a
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    by czue 6y ago

    I would love to make Pegasus a hosted platform, and it's certainly been at the end of the giant tunnel of work ahead of me in terms of the long-term potential I see. The most concise answer as to why I haven't done it is that I&#x
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    by czue 6y ago

    Thanks, yeah that "try to be a bit more markety than you are comfortable with" advice for engineers is probably my biggest takeaway and something I hope people get from the story.
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    by czue 6y ago

    Thanks for the suggestion! I agree with you re: the copy and being more benefit oriented. As is probably obvious I am a developer-first and a marketer a distant second. Also appreciate the pointer to outseta
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    by czue 6y ago

    Thanks for saying this. Certainly how I feel, but I haven't read the rules...
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    by czue 6y ago

    Hi Nick! Nice to see you here, and thanks for the great chat :)
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    by czue 6y ago

    Yeah, good point and definitely agree with this. I don't actually promote my product on Reddit, I just promote useful content I've created. My posts pretty consistently reach #1 on /r/django because (I suspect) I put sub
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    by czue 6y ago

    Cool! Don't hesitate to reach out if you have any questions.
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    by czue 6y ago

    Ah, sorry! (I did wonder whether to add a temporary extension of the sale timed with the blog release but decided it would be tacky... also I wasn't expecting the blog to do well!) Re: licensing, if you don't end up launching the
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    by czue 6y ago

    Hey HN. Author here. I wrote this up because I very hesitant to run a black friday sale for my product and was blown away by how much it impacted the business. Hopefully sharing the story (and lessons learned) might encourage others who are
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    Lessons from Running a Sale That Earned 3 Month's Profit in a Week(coryzue.com)

    186 points by czue 6y ago|42 comments
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    by czue 6y ago

    I run three "optionally" passive projects that have combined to about $26k so far in 2020 ("optionally" passive meaning I can put them on autopilot anytime, though continue to work on them to grow them). They are: 1. Saa
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    by czue 6y ago

    Author here. I've been working on this post for more than a month, and it represents more than 30 hours of writing / code samples on top of another two months of learning and building subscription products. Hope you find it helpfu