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Start With A Side-Project — How I built, marketed, and sold a side-project in 3 months
My personal experiences, thoughts, challenges, and key takeaways of what building, promoting and eventually selling a side-project was like for me and could possibly be like for you. It is packed with actionable advice based on my personal experiences.
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Luis Gabriel Martins
I discovered this book here and some days later decided to buy. Now I’m here to write the review
I highly recommend it. It was exactly what I was expecting, a short, straight forward, plain-english story about a “normal/one of us” kind of entrepreneur.
Reading about the lives of big business names is great, but sometimes what you need is relatable, actionable advice about how to create, launch and potently make money with your side project.
Is there any big secret or game changing thing in this book? Definitely not, but I don’t think that’s the point. It’s simply a really interesting big blog post about a guy’s experience.
PS: selling it on amazon was great since it allowed me to read it on my kindle. I have a hard time reading long texts on normal screens so the e-reader was quite pleasant.
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@luis_martins Thanks for the review Luis! I would also love seeing your review on Amazon :)
@petecodes @ben_johnston1 @jasonpiao actually http://openstartuplist.com is the side-project I wrote about in my book.
Hey Product Hunters 👋
Thank you @chrismessina for hunting Start With A Side-Project, this is incredible!
I'm happy to present to you my journey of learning, challenges, small victories, and my key takeaways of each phase packed in a compact eBook brought to you in PDF, ePub and Mobi formats.
In this book I want to share with you my personal experiences, thoughts, challenges, and key takeaways of what building, promoting and eventually selling a side-project were actually like for me, and possibly, what it could be for you.
Find out how I grew my side-project completely organic without spending any money on paid ads.
Learn how creative content marketing got me featured on websites, blogs, and even on a tech magazine
Achievements that I talk about in depth in the book:
- How a Hacker News post got me to accidentally launch on Product Hunt.
- Why a big tech magazine covered my side-project and brought in hundreds of visitors.
- How I grew an email list to over 470+ subscribers.
- Why many websites and blogs featured my side-project, generating incredible backlinks, which helped me increase authority on Google.
- How I got other awesome makers to help me create content in exchange for marketing.
- How I grew completely organic without spending a dime on paid ads.
- How I sold the side-project on my own using escrow services and made profit.
- And many more!
I will be looking forward to your feedback and questions in the comment :)
You can find the eBook on Gumroad and Amazon:
https://gum.co/side-project
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08DN5...
In the upcoming weeks it will also be available on AppSumo!!!
It looks interesting. But wait, your "reading sample" is a couple words on a A5 page? I would appreciate if it had just a little more meat...
