by micropoet on 11/26/20, 1:42 PM with 68 comments
by phoboslab on 11/26/20, 2:43 PM
This feels similar. The blog post and the site is beautifully designed (really!) but I have a hard time figuring out what I'm buying. Is it access to a chat where everyone tries to sell you their "startups"?
I guess it's not for me, but congratz to your success!
by timjones on 11/26/20, 2:32 PM
As a new member, that led to an amazing first-time user experience where I got high-quality answers to every question I posted.
And now I'm motivated to help out other members just as the first members helped me.
Launch revenue is great, but it won't survive unless it gets this right ^^
by finikytou on 11/26/20, 9:22 PM
by DoreenMichele on 11/26/20, 6:18 PM
I think an angle you should focus on is that technical blogs are a means to develop technical careers. Most blogs don't make money or don't make much money.
But if you have a skill, like programming, that can command an excellent wage or salary, a blog can help you learn your craft, show your expertise and network. However, you will need to back that up with real world examples, not just hypotheticals.
That's the way to avoid being thought of as "Someone getting rich telling people to buy my book about how to get rich" when that's your entire schtick.
by kerabatsos on 11/26/20, 3:49 PM
by thinbeige on 11/26/20, 3:51 PM
So, I don't want to be that guy but every time I had disclosed my secret sauce in the past, e.g. how my recent venture sky-rocketed, I disclosed it when the growth was over, never, really never, before. Why should I hand out my treasure map which was months of work to everyone?
However, the author wrote that she wants to reach 20K and this will be still a challenge and so she seems quite credible but still, reading this post took some time and I am not sure if it was well invested. I feels like the typical r/entrepreneur post how-I-made-x-in-y-weeks but, again, much better executed.
by BMSmnqXAE4yfe1 on 11/26/20, 11:02 PM
by xenihn on 11/26/20, 8:15 PM
But spending $10 on a Something Awful forums account sixteen years ago is the last time that I'll ever pay money for the privilege of producing monetizable content for others, with no forms of profit-sharing for producers (posters, in the case of a forum).
by _jy3k on 11/26/20, 6:31 PM
I guess this is an ultimate blog. A fixpoint of blogs. Possibly a quine would be something analogical for actual computer programs.
by dmonn on 11/26/20, 2:16 PM
Starting my dev career, blogging was what ultimately led to my first high-profile internship, which opened so many doors down the line. Big fan!
by BLanen on 11/26/20, 7:46 PM
1. It's actually not. I assume your primary audience is American so this is just a strange statement.
2. This is your personal after-profit spending and has little to do with your venture's numbers.
by AlchemistCamp on 11/26/20, 3:39 PM
by gnicholas on 11/26/20, 10:23 PM
I'm also not clear on the "in one month" aspect of this, since the author stresses that most purchasers were people that were on her 4,000-person newsletter list. Presumably that was built up over a much longer time period?
Still, congrats to @mlent for launching this, adding value for so many people, and taking the time to share her experience!
by gbrindisi on 11/26/20, 3:32 PM
One thing I noticed is that if you write a blog about tech topics, you will suddenly be competing with the shallow blogs of vendors in your niche.
They have people and resources to waste in content marketing, you don't and it's a struggle to be discovered on google by other engineers.
A good aggregator that optimize for "discovery" would be awesome!
by mindhash on 11/27/20, 3:44 AM
If the Paid packaging of the product had been course + community, we wouldn’t have seen the negative messages here.
by timwaagh on 11/27/20, 1:19 AM
by ramosu on 11/26/20, 9:16 PM
Not that I'm a genius like them. But sometimes having these ego bursts really helps getting some attention.
by nbzso on 11/26/20, 7:51 PM
Please, rewrite your article and remove information how much money you have made. It feels wrong.
How My Paid Community Made $5K in Its First Week.
May be: How I started paid community for developers successfully.
This may seem like good copy but in reality with this kind of "transparency" you are losing a lot of valuable members. Personally I don't understand the business model of this product. And have logical questions: People pay for access to closed community and knowledge. Did you share revenue with your members? Because if you'r product is access to closed information channel pricing is too high. As a customer I don't understand for what I am paying. There are a ton of resources in any form for topics that you provide, what is differentiation factor?
by elliotbnvl on 11/26/20, 6:17 PM
by thih9 on 11/26/20, 9:30 PM
Would be interesting to know the details.
Congrats on your project!
by maz1b on 11/26/20, 6:32 PM
by tomcam on 11/26/20, 6:31 PM