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How I Made $350 In Two Days With Three Pages and Some Payment Code (2011)

86 点作者 tpatke超过 12 年前

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ChuckMcM超过 12 年前
This is misstated:<p><i>"You can find the post here. It didn’t have any upvotes (besides mine) for about 10 minutes. Then it slowly started to climb. And climb. By about 1 am it was at the top of the front page and the orders were pouring in! By 2 am I was scrambling to fill orders. I had a huge TextEdit file open with customer names, site URLs, and email addresses. I sent every email, and set up every survey by hand.<p>By 6 am I had completed processing every order and went to bed. I got up an hour later forwork at 7 am. In those few precious moments of sleep I had made another $40. By the end of the day on Monday I had made over $330 and the number kept climbing.<p>So now I’m sitting here writing this blog post with a bunch of orders to fill, features to build, and customers to help. My Stripe account also says that I’ve made $350 to date. All from three pages and some payment code."</i><p>You made $350 from 3 pages, a payment code, and 5 hours of manual labor from 1AM to 6AM. And the additional hours you spent creating the pages. So that is about $70/hr at best and closer $25/hr if you include the other time investment.<p>I only mention this because it is a common mistake people make when they see real money come in for the product of their work that they see it as paying $x for the product because they haven't included any value for their own time.<p>If you are not careful that mistake can have you working below minimum wage :-).
dshipper超过 12 年前
Hey guys great to see an old article of mine like this posted here. For the people who asked, the site is down because I sold it and the new owner neglected to take care of it :(<p>Read about the experience here: <a href="http://danshipper.com/110636263" rel="nofollow">http://danshipper.com/110636263</a><p>Happy to answer questions about it if you have them.
ambuj超过 12 年前
To the people wondering whether the website is down: yes, Dan has sold the website: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3698539" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3698539</a> (DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months)
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mistercow超过 12 年前
What I found particularly interesting about this is just how <i>minimum</i> the minimum viable product was. I think it's easy to lose perspective on the MVP concept and forget that not everything has to be automated right off the bat. Instead of starting out with a web app that automated a process, he started out by offering a manual service, and then automated the job he had created for himself. Very smart.
teh_klev超过 12 年前
This was covered a while back: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839534" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2839534</a>
fmax30超过 12 年前
In other news a friend of mine actually earned 600$ in 1.5 hours by selling a static html5 website (he had a site in his portfolio the client asked him to make the same ) to a client on odesk.
Zoophy超过 12 年前
"$350 In Two Days With Three Pages" sounds really awesome (and a bit linkbait-y), but how many hours did you actually work? Looks like you had to do a lot of manual labor.<p>I am also a bit skeptical about it otherwise, seeing as this is simply a proxy for another service.
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phineas超过 12 年前
Seeing as this site is no longer functioning and the article is 1.5 years old, is there a site that does inexpensive focus groups to review websites?
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paigalhaes超过 12 年前
Is <a href="http://www.domainpolish.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.domainpolish.com/</a> down, or just me that can't access it?
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kfullert超过 12 年前
Great story and good to see success - how scalable is it - from what I read, the early feedback praised you on the quality/depth of questions, which if you move to a more automated way of producing the surveys you'll lose?
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verroq超过 12 年前
&#62;Posted on August 3, 2011
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sixQuarks超过 12 年前
I love that you're not afraid to share both your failures and successes. The important thing I see is that you're out there testing different things, if one path leads to a dead-end, you figure out another path. I think you're on your way to success. Good luck!
sparkinson超过 12 年前
Seems your site is taking a bit of a hit: <a href="http://isitup.org/www.domainpolish.com" rel="nofollow">http://isitup.org/www.domainpolish.com</a><p>What a great idea though, glad to see it's a success! Now you just need to automate it a bit further.
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jrajav超过 12 年前
The site: <a href="http://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120525003840/http://domainpolish.com/" rel="nofollow">http://web-beta.archive.org/web/20120525003840/http://domain...</a>
robotic超过 12 年前
Reading this guys bio humbles me. He's done more in the last 10 years as a student than I've done in the past 10 years professionally.
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TallboyOne超过 12 年前
Man, this somewhat distresses me. It is so incredibly easy to add basic automation... write down by hand, really? (Although I really like the custom thank you videos for your first customers - nice touch).<p>Great story though, I'm glad you cashed out, i guess i just feel that twinge of pain at the fact you could have kept it going for hardly more work, but i understand entirely where you're coming from - so props to you !
pknerd超过 12 年前
Making "How Do I" posts can only bring traffic to the site than any other benefit to others.
javajin超过 12 年前
Really enjoyed this article. Back to the drawing board is great advice
slykat超过 12 年前
Is there a mobile version of this type of service?
escaped_reddit超过 12 年前
How do you know someone goes to an ivy school? Don't worry, they'll tell you.