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I've reached the milestone of donating 50 trees from my Gumroad earnings of my E-book, each tree was gifted to a buyer, so they received a nice E-card with a thank you :) For visualisation, here are 50 trees: 🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳🌳 I'm not an environmental activist but you just can't stay indifferent and ignore the state of our planet. Fire spread in multiple...

I didn't start with 10 years of experience in the industry or by being genius. I started by exploring. It is the path that we take which is the interesting part in life, not the end of the road. When I first thought about Open Startup List, it was from pure interest in learning, and thinking broad and "out of the box". When I set out to build the idea, while other similar sites existed, it...

Yesterday I saw the great numbers Andrew Kamphey posted of his product: BetterSheets, which stemmed from the exposure he got from AppSumo. That's when I decided to give it a shot and submitted my ebook (https://gum.co/side-project) to AppSumo. It was a long shot as their acceptance rate is only around 5%. I woke up today and saw an email from AppSumo's team, saying that I got accepted and...

I'm writing my first eBook about micro-entrepreneurship that's called Start With A Side-Project - https://gum.co/side-project. So far I'm only offering it on Gumroad, I actively promote it since I'm a first-time author so I don't expect to be recommended by Gumroad. How does the discoverability on Amazon works? Will I have to put efforts promoting it there as well? I might as well just focus...

It's been 3 months since I launched my side-project: https://www.producthunt.com/posts/open-startup-list Recently it's been acquired :) While the project didn’t generate income, it did get a lot of attention, an increasing subscriber base, and a strong domain authority, all of which while growing completely organic. The potential is high and it’s at a great starting point. I'm currently...

This week I interviewed Rich from Failory.com, he is running an Open Startup (which you can read more about at openstartuplist.com). He shares incredible insights on his revenue/expense streams: Full interview: https://www.blog.openstartuplist.com/how-staying-consistent-helped-failory-grow-to-800-mrr