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Tell HN: Today I try to make a living from my side project

28 pointsby MattBearmanover 9 years ago
I&#x27;ve been running BugMuncher[0] as a side project for about 4 years now. It&#x27;s been going well and steadily growing, with practically no marketing effort.<p>Today I start my mission to make BugMuncher my only source of income. I&#x27;m giving up my freelancing, and have at least 8 months of runway saved up.<p>I&#x27;m mainly going to be focusing on marketing, so if anyone can point me to some good marketing resources to help me on my path it would be much appreciated.<p>Wish me luck!<p>[0] http:&#x2F;&#x2F;bugmuncher.com

9 comments

kohanzover 9 years ago
Congrats! This is a big accomplishment in and of itself.<p>To throw in my 2 cents, without any expert knowledge or experience, I think your corporate price is too low by about an order of magnitude.
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tixocloudover 9 years ago
Congratulations and good luck!<p>Inbound.org has been a great marketing resource for me. Another source that&#x27;s been useful is Andrew Warner&#x27;s Mixergy podcasts. There&#x27;s bits and pieces of advice on how to grow businesses that will help you.<p>Also, I&#x27;d love to help in any way I can so feel free to drop me an email - I&#x27;m in Customer Strategy and work extensively with Marketing and Advertising.<p>That said, I love your product&#x27;s idea and it&#x27;s definitely something that could be useful to us as a startup down the road. My personal opinion would be that the branding of the product could better reflect your headline &quot;Feedback Tool with Automatic Screenshots&quot;. You&#x27;ll have to think through who your target customers are and use their language.
jason_slackover 9 years ago
In your &quot;See what others are saying..&quot; section, one of the quotes is: &quot;Horrible name for a site&quot;<p>When I read that I could not tell if it was a joke...<p>I like the idea, BTW. I am going to see how it fits into my workflow.
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thomasrossiover 9 years ago
Congrats! Good luck, the product is interesting indeed. I am not a marketing expert though. Maybe you can try to work a deal with some automated website builder? So they can add the bug-reporting tool to their offering, 1 deal would mean lots of users (but their websites are probably fairly simple?).
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luxpirover 9 years ago
Inspiring. Someone actually doing it, and the way I hope to in a year or few. Keep talking it up and maybe even journal the process. I&#x27;d be keen to stay in the loop.<p>May you have more luck than you know what to do with.
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brickmortover 9 years ago
If you aren&#x27;t already, I highly recommend frequenting &#x2F;r&#x2F;entrepreneur and &#x2F;r&#x2F;startups on reddit. Best of luck!!
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ffumarolaover 9 years ago
I work in marketing&#x2F;advertising, feel free to ping me via email&#x2F;gchat (in my profile) for some ideas.
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quantisanover 9 years ago
Looks useful. Best of luck!<p>Do you mind if I ask, why the move now?
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alex_gover 9 years ago
looks like a great product! I think some design upgrades would really help you out though.
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