limedaring

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by limedaring 11y ago
You can buy from http://gumroad.com/limedaring though if you buy the paperback book, ~$14 US is added for international shipping.
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by limedaring 11y ago
Do you mean the code that's on Github (like the installation instructions) and not in the paperback? The install stuff is online because I highly suspect it'll need to be updated often, and I didn't want the book to go out of
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by limedaring 11y ago
Huh, looks like my fault. I was avoiding mentioning Python/Django in favor of emphasizing "web app development" so it didn't look too technical, but I think I went a bit far and forgot to mention them altogether. Whoops.
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by limedaring 11y ago
Just saw the typo, sorry! I meant, "I have a graphic design degree and took editorial design..."
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by limedaring 11y ago
Yeah, Kickstarter is a LOT of work but it's great at both building up an email list as well as getting an "advance" for your work before it's released (of course, only if the KS is successful.)
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by limedaring 11y ago
You wouldn't believe how many hours I spent on cover design. >_<
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by limedaring 11y ago
Gumroad does PDF personalization. You'd still have to do your own marketing though!
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by limedaring 11y ago
To be fair, that was Product Hunt, where people are primed to buy. My conversion rate is normally ~1-3%, and right now is a fraction of that since most people are visiting for the article only.
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by limedaring 11y ago
Huh, had no idea. Thanks for the tip!
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by limedaring 11y ago
I ended up ordering 1,000 because I needed to fulfill the Kickstarter orders (~300). I probably have about 400-500 left at this moment from my order in May. 1,000 was a nice round number that also gave me a good bulk discount on PrintNinja.
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by limedaring 11y ago
What toelva said! I definitely added a week or so of work by doing all the design myself. Writing... if I focused, I could write another book in two weeks of full-time work (maybe less) but the issue is getting distracted, or taking the tim
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by limedaring 11y ago
> How did you support yourself while writing the book? And if you were working another job, how did you find time? I am lucky that I have no rent, so the income from WeddingLovely (when I was paying myself $20k/yr) as well as income
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by limedaring 11y ago
It's offered in the 2nd package on Leanpub for an extra $5. :)
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by limedaring 11y ago
About five years, but I consider myself a beginner-intermediate still. I think that helped with writing the book because I'm still very aware of how non-programmers think and how to explain things in a non-programmer-y way. The book co
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by limedaring 11y ago
Thanks!
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by limedaring 11y ago
Urg, that might be impossible to estimate. Hundreds on the various tasks (writing, editing, designing, researching, etc.)
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by limedaring 11y ago
Kickstarter helped a ton, promotion of the campaign helped me get to 800 email subscribers by launch day. Not huge, but not tiny either. Reddit (a mentioned in the post) was also almost as big as product hunt.
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by limedaring 11y ago
It's been dropping pretty steadily so I'm leaning towards releasing an intermediate book with more web app exercises. Makes a great upsell, I can bundle it with the beginner book, I can do another kickstarter (maybe). So expanding
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by limedaring 11y ago
Awesome. I also made a forum at discuss.hellowebapp.com for questions if you need any help. :)
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by limedaring 11y ago
It was more like having 50% of the book already known, and knowing that the book wouldn't be great without another 50% on top of it.
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by limedaring 11y ago
I've sold 1 ebook package and 1 complete package on Gumroad with about 5,000 page views so far. :P But sharing information is fun too, revenue generation isn't the #1 goal.
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by limedaring 11y ago
Yup - Leanpub made Amazon publishing super simple. I'm not a fan of their PDF designs though so I still needed to do that on my own for the rest of my digital files on Gumroad. :)
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by limedaring 11y ago
Oh squarespace. That's my "actual" url, guess the custom domain stopped working. Looking into it, thanks! Gumroad is great, except that they don't market your book like Amazon does, so they're kind of apples and ora
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by limedaring 11y ago
Yay! Leanpub is my top recommendation for anyone self publishing a book, the platform is really great. Hope it gets even bigger!
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by limedaring 11y ago
Yup!
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by limedaring 11y ago
I have a graphic design degree and room editorial design at university, so I definitely had a leg up there. I indeed used indesign, a lot of stuff I remembered but I also touched up on it by taking some skillahare classes on laying out book
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by limedaring 11y ago
I detail that in the linked post - the biggest was product hunt, and reddit was huge too.
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by limedaring 11y ago
Awesome! Apologies again for the delay in fulfillment. :)
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by limedaring 11y ago
A few chapters in the book I knew nothing about before writing them (Heroku, pieces of others) and the review process also pointed out a few places where my knowledge was actually wrong. As a whole, it's been a huge learning process, a
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by limedaring 11y ago
Thanks for the congrats! Yeah I agree that other perks can outweigh the money; see also the comment below about marketing being one of the hardest parts about writing a book. Getting more known now will help future books I write (Nathan Bar

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