2.5 years ago I decided to quit the rat race and I left my career in big tech to go work for myself, on my own terms. Initially, I was going to focus all my attention on building a SaaS, but I quickly realized I didn't want to put all my eggs in one basket. Fast forward to today, I make and sell educational info products, do some contracting (working quarter-time at Gumroad), run a SaaS business, and at the end of this month, I also plan to get into selling physical products.I made $550K+ in revenue since I started working for myself, with over $400K coming from info products. Ask me anything!
Started as a weekend project in 2011, Gumroad has grown with its fair share of ups and downs to helping 94,000+ creators earn over $500,000,000. In February 2019, I published a Medium essay, Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company,
Last 5 years my job was my hobby. And then I felt burning out emotionally. Thats why now I decided to do tennis, dancing and painting apart from work. I m wondering how much time is okay for that.
My biggest takeaway is that Failure is a Redirection. My first Print on Demand store was a big mess and a complete failure. But instead of giving up, I tried looking up Digital Marketing on the whole, back in 2021. That's what helped me pivot towards Copywriting and Content Writing 6 months later. Today, I'm happy I make money as a Writer online. If I had given up after my first startup's failure, I would've just gone back to my boring, miserable life of studying to participate in the rat race.
A little over a week ago I had the thought of creating a poster that would serve as a constant reminder of my financial goal for 2018. I figured other people might want the same thing -- so I made this.
Applydog is a search engine that crawls career sites to harvest openings listed directly by companies. I'd love for you to give it a try. There are currently over 90,000 jobs listed from several thousand companies and growing.
Convert HEIC images to JPGs online fast via libheic in the browser. This site is 100% browser-based with no download or upload required. Your photos are converted on your computer.
I'm building a new thing using what I call Slender Stack Development -- a combination of no- & low-code platforms -- to streamline the process. Instead of using toy examples to illustrate, I'm documenting my process of creating something real from scratch.
A call to action to promote diversity and inclusion in data science, this comic chronicles the journey of Brandon Jackson into the field and provides an introduction to the career path.
SPUR is a program where we partner with non-engineering founders to build and launch their B2B SaaS products.
We go beyond your typical web agency by helping develop a growth-oriented business model and land your first two customers.
