About six weeks ago I decided to try to turn by side project BugMuncher into my full time job. I posted a Tell HN at the time (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10152465) and got some amazing responses, as well as some requests to document my progress - I was unsure at first, but I've now decided write a completely transparent blog series about it.<p>I've just published the first instalment, which deals very honestly with the huge amount of fear I currently feel - https://blog.bugmuncher.com/2015/10/22/from-side-project-to-profitable-start-up-part-1.html - I'd love to get some feedback.<p>Thanks,
Matt
You've calculated how long it will take to break even on your salary alone via becoming a successful blogger... and it's an optimistic 18 month crawl in which helping other entrepreneurs is some sort of priority alongside programming and kitten blog posts.<p>Some thoughts:<p>1) if traffic's not coming to you for your product the vast majority of it won't care for your product, your best case scenario on product-irrelevant blog posts is awful traffic and most won't even deliver that<p>2) don't worry about other entrepreneurs', they can find blog posts in lots of places and they're nowhere near as important as your company<p>3) Buffer and Groove each have the luxury of over a $million in investments to pay people to write content that falls off HN, Reddit etc like it never existed while other people focus on building their businesses, you're on your own so you're doing one or the other really<p>You have a finished product that some people are paying for, why isn't $3000 MRR your goal for this year? That is surely possible somehow.
It was amazing to read this Matt, honestly. It was like I was reading something I would write 6 months or 1 year down the road. I just finished my project Synkee and now I'm trying to build up courage to post it on HN. :)<p>And my numbers look almost exactly the same.<p>Thumbs up, I will definitely follow your progress, maybe even become a customer down the road. I wish you luck and success my friend!