I quit my job. Shipped 2 products. Launched a Services business. Now what?

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by Tawheed • 16 years ago

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Tawheed3• 16 years ago

I know this article is quite lengthy. Any feedback you have on my thinking process would be awesome and much appreciated.

nestlequ1k• 16 years ago

Interesting post. How many users vs paid users do you have on your current products?

Tawheed3• 16 years ago

Tout has about 700 users, and about ~15 paid users @ $30, with a good number of people "waiting" for a lower priced solo plan. Braintrust has a higher number of users, but most of them are no longer active -- so I've stopped looking too hard until the re-launch.

kleinsch• 16 years ago

I liked the detailed look at what your values are and how that ties into your goals. After talking with some friends recently, I went through this exercise and it helped me come up with a logical set of short-term goals that will get me to where I want to be.

wallflower• 16 years ago

> I want to reduce the number of clients or simultaneous projects to TWO at most.

So, true. The thing most people don't realize about freelancing is that juggling projects is a massive context switch. And, it is very bad, to continue the juggling metaphor, to drop a client deliverable while juggling clients.

redrory• 16 years ago

As much as I cringed when I saw the "Now what?". I loved that post. So motivational. Mainstreet and Tout are simple but brillant ideas. Keep up the good work man.

erreon• 16 years ago

This is amazingly interesting and inspiring for me. It's my intention to put out a simple web app every month or two this year. I've been piddling with programming languages for years and this year was my first year to put out anything public. Reading things like this excites me even though we come from completely different positions in life.

klbarry• 16 years ago

Mainstreet looks great for reselling and Tout looks really friggen awesome, I wish I heard of them earlier.

I quit my job. Shipped 2 products. Launched a Services business. Now what?

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