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  • How to launch a product with less than $10/month.

    Fabio Reyes
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    Having just launched my product, aka Stryvin, I'd like to share my experience of getting a product to market with minimal economic resources. Over the last decade I've dedicated myself to building several products, but this last one has been a challenge because I had to build it with a monthly burn rate of less than $10, and the first thing I've noticed is that instead of having a resource scarcity, I've actually seen a resource transformation. You stop paying for things with money and start paying with time, knowledge and even psychological resources. Less than $10/month and no compensation requires total commitment and sacrifice, as well as your full technical (ideally multidisciplinary) expertise and full-time work ~80hrs/week. You essentially become a one-man band. Overcoming the lack of a team: I spent most of my time learning the skills of what would have been employees and extra time executing them: coding, marketing, sales, design and psychology, etc No advertising: I design the product so that it can spread by itself: design for network effects, wom, virality (easier said than done). Infrastructure: Open source tools, efficient computing/requests code and cloud credits. I basically only pay for the domain name, I am always looking for ways to do the rest of the work myself in the first place. As I said, time is basically the new currency of exchange. Over the past few years, I've been determined to to experience the discipline of proving to myself that it's possible to create a business and even overcome poverty with very minimal resources in difficult economic conditions.

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    Inspiring! Good Luck with your launch, Fabio:)
    Luke
    Thanks for your information! Good luck to you~
    Bret Lee
    I suggest you have to sell over $30 products so that you can get a suitable margin such as https://macdemarcomerch.shop/mac...
    Brandon Lee Mitchell
    Check out the No Code Dev free resource directory for all sorts of affordable tools that can help with launching on a tight budget: https://nocodedev.com/free-resou.... Lots of free/cheap options for website builders, CRMs, email marketing, etc. Good luck with your launch!
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    Daniel Burns
    Impressive Fabio, thanks for sharing! Wishing you good luck 🚀
    Timothy Charles Wilson
    Wow, $10/month is impressive! Maybe try using free/low-cost tools like Canva for design, Stripe for payments, and social media + existing communities for marketing. Leverage open source software where possible. Wishing you the best with the launch! Let us know how it goes.
    Hannah Grace Sullivan
    Producthunt's Free plan gives you all the basic features to launch for free. You could also use a combo of free tiers from Airtable for your database, Vercel for hosting, and Shufflejs.dev for your landing page. Should be doable under $10/month to start. Other free options are out there too if you get creative! Rooting for your successful launch! 🚀