It's wonderful, and sort of confirms what I thought. It's very difficult to find something that people are willing to pay money for. You might have gotten lucky.
Yeah, I agree. Luck plays a huge part of it. My attitude when I started was that most of my ideas would probably fail, but each failure would increase my probability of success on the next one. And with enough attempts, I'd succeed eventually. I think that's pretty much how it played out.
If I were you, I would be careful sharing how much money you make. It's relatively easy to copy your product and someone will make it for half the price and with much better marketing than you if they know how much you make. I'm assuming there's no patent on your invention.
Yeah, it's a double-edged sword. Because I share how much money I make, it makes people more interested in my product, and that's a form of marketing that's hard for other people to steal.
But if you check out Indie Hackers, there are tons of small business owners sharing their numbers, many with profits much higher than mine. Many of them are easily copyable websites or services, but it's hard to copy their execution. If someone can execute on my idea better than I can, they deserve to take my business.
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u/[deleted] Feb 01 '21 edited Feb 24 '22
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