Make Money and Enjoy Freedom Creating a Software Business
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History and numbers matter: juicer.io starts as a $0 risk rebuild after Tint hikes from $10 to $250 plus a paid Stripe checkout and a WordPress plugin, juicer.io is built in Rails with JavaScript and a free forever tier that trades branding for backlinks, growth comes from Reddit Product Hunt SEO long tail posts and a WordPress directory listing, today it has about 17,000 customers with ~10% paying, development targets are MVP in 2 weeks full time or 4 weeks part time and operations run on 1–4 hours a day.
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- 0:00Start
- 2:29Your salary is significantly less than the value you provide your employer.
- 2:59No one has ever gotten rich working for someone else.
- 3:19My history, prior to Juicer.
- 5:12Come up with an idea
- 6:57Solve your own problem
- 7:32Solve a problem for
- 10:02Don't worry about competitors
- 11:52Build It!
- 12:35Start Small
- 14:39Set a deadline
- 15:36Launch it
- 17:08Figure out who your customer is, and where they are.
- 17:55Product Hunt
- 18:44Get Some Customers
- 19:38SEO
- 23:36Content Marketing
- 25:19Plugin / Add On
- 26:23Hit the Street
- 26:36Talk to your customers
- 28:44Be Un-scalable
- 30:04Improve your Product
- 31:49Create your business in your free time
- 32:16Grow Slow!
- 34:50Juicer Today
- 35:23Questions?
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