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This has been around for a while, but perhaps not packaged and marketed in this way. Probably quite effective when it comes to clients needing basic design needs. I don't see this working too well for actual building of software products, where it's not about the number of revisions that matter but more about spending time on the client + service provider relationship and building the right thing.
So making a few hundred bucks per month with a product/project is not that difficult, but growing that or making it so the time you invested into it is not too high is difficult.
My personal experience, I built a newsletter to a small size (800), took about year to do this so I definitely didn't scale out very fast by any measure.
Either way I did reach a point where I was able to get a few hundred bucks per month in sponsorship. The time I put into it though didn't get the returns I needed to keep going at it so I've put it on hold and am not making any revenue now.
It's one of those challenges where I believe I need to put a lot more time & money into it, take a risk and see if I can grow that revenue to a few thousand per month so that my time has better return. At a few hundred bucks it's not a passive income generating project.
I thought this would be a good story to share because in thinking about what could make you a few hundred bucks, it would be good to define how you get there. Building a SAAS product takes a ton of time upfront, and a few hundred bucks per month won't be enough to justify that time... but of course it's proof of a business model that can get to the thousands per month, and maybe more!
Like this idea. Probably work well as a recommended spec/pattern for developers and designers to follow.
This has probably been mentioned already, but just in case checkout indiehackers.
A slack group spun out of this for founders looking to stay accountable to each other for a September sprint.. but now it's ongoing. Its a good place to chat with other fellow founders, mostly devs and a few marketing. I can send you the slack link if you like, just reply.
I work from home by myself so i get your problem!
Ah got it, so in respects to your business github's value was as a channel of distribution... and without it your costs of marketing and user acquisition sky rocket?
That's really cool!
Oh yeah I'm not really concerned about safety, I'm assuming parents are being responsible in that regard. My concern is social interaction, and parents staring at their phones and not even interacting with other parents. I get not all people like to socialize all the time, and finding alone time to read a book is rare as a young parent... but it's nice to just chat with people and put the phones away. I'm an introvert by nature so I like alone time.
If a parent is reading a book, I totally respect that! You don't see lots of people walking and reading a book everywhere they go, staring at a book to avoid social conversation, or unable to put it down for more than 6 minutes... phones just seem to takeover the brain, like TV but worse.
That's definitely the modern day problem! Can't believe how often you go to playgrounds and a parent is on their phone the entire time. It makes me self conscious every time I need to use my phone for something important, as I don't want to be that parent although I have been in the past. I removed the Facebook app from my phone and that's helped, among removing push notifications, putting it on silent etc... phone addiction is a real problem, as is social media consumption.
Interested in the age range as well. Huge difference between infants, prek, k-middle school and beyond.
What about the repos which have documentation off github and do sponsorships. Would code sponsor work in that space? Sorry I don't know the details of how code sponsor works but I do see lots of sponsorships on the main docs for lots of solid open source projects.
Looking forward to the book
I moved to vuejs... 2.x is great. Had the same experience with reactjs as you.