What Could You Build with Just $10,000?

I started <a href="http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fairpixels.pro" rel="nofollow">http:&#x2F;&#x2F;fairpixels.pro</a> - ui design firm for startups, for less than $100. Before we had a website, we were profitable and quickly grew to $10k&#x2F;mo in a few weeks. like mentioned in the article, cashflow is key here. It allows you to reinvest earned money and keep growing. Startups shouldnt raise IMHO before reaching product market fit. Ive made that mistake in the past myself. Having a lot of VC money in your bank that you can burn through while looking for a business model sounds fun, but isn&#x27;t.

Sure, these businesses were all built on $10K of capital. But what about time? How many months or years could have been spent working while building the business? That could put a lot of these businesses into six-figure territory when you factor in opportunity cost.

For this kind of budget, we&#x27;ve regularly built works-like-looks-like prototypes of fairly complex consumer hardware devices.<p>For example, we built World&#x27;s best FPV video goggles for roughly this budget (with custom optics design <i>and</i> prototyping). That&#x27;s our internal project, though.<p>After building a prototype, you would typically need another 2x to 3x that for tooling (if plastics are involved) and some working capital to manufacture the first volume run of 100 - 1000 units.<p>Hardware is rather expensive.

Ok - first thought I had was a big model castle made out of pennies

It&#x27;s a little disingenuous to suggest that most of theses companies were built with 10k though right? Maybe it took 10k to prove a market, but surely there was lots of funding following that.

Back when Google was easier to game with SEO it was pretty common to bootstrap nothing into a few thousand a month.<p>One common pattern was finding popular sites where you could find bugs that allowed you to post links in comments with a css style that made them not look like links. PageRank loved it.

I built Casting Call Club (<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;castingcall.club" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;castingcall.club</a>) with $0, and only 1000s of hours of my time. No matter what you pay (time or money or lost opportunities), the price is always significant.

&gt; RXBar... focused on sales first and “branding” second.<p>&gt; The distinctive, no BS packaging<p>The author is very confused about what &#x27;branding&#x27; means.<p>EDIT: I&#x27;m an idiot.

You can build most any software application with $0 invested and be cash flow positive before writing a line of code. There are lots of people (myself incljded) that take an idea to potential customers, turn them into actual customers and then get to work. For B2B it is not hard to say &quot;I will solve this problem for x dollars per month. That will make you y more or save you y dollars per month. Sign here and I will provide the solution in # weeks.&quot; And that works just fine.

We started my current business which now does around $5M p.a revenue with $3000 in 2005. It&#x27;s definitely doable!

A working engine and less rusting bodywork for my VW van house. Oh seriously? Then something that uses almost all SaaS and has marginally-zero unit cost like a self-improvement videos site.

A compelling pilot study of hospital-associated infection transmission in a developing world hospital.

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