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Lessons from my first exit

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410 points saeedesmaili | 1 comments | 14 Nov 24 07:32 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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mtlynch ◴[14 Nov 24 13:44 UTC] No.42136070[source]▶
Author here.

Happy to answer take any feedback and answer any questions about this post.

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simultsop ◴[14 Nov 24 13:57 UTC] No.42136165[source]▶
how many businesses you run?
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mtlynch ◴[14 Nov 24 14:41 UTC] No.42136515[source]▶
Right now, I just have one business that makes money. It's an ingredient parsing API that I wrote in 2018.[0] It was not a good idea, but it still makes $100-200/mo without me doing anything. Until a few months ago, I also had a website about the keto diet that made about $100/mo, but I sold it because I wasn't doing anything with it.[1]

I'm currently working on a book about writing as a developer, and that's my main focus for the next few months,, but I don't know if I' call it a business because I haven't sold anything yet.[2]

[0] https://zestfuldata.com/

[1] https://mtlynch.io/notes/buy-is-it-keto/

[2] https://refactoringenglish.com

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1. akomtu ◴[14 Nov 24 21:07 UTC] No.42141237[source]▶
Imo, you can make good money, and do some good, guiding the numerous laid off developers on the business pastures, if only you figure out how to scale beyond the usual personal couch model. Perhaps some sort of QA platform with paid access: free-tier for read-only users, basic-tier allows asking questions, and premium users get occasional 1-1 guidance? Just a random idea. This might work because they can relate to you and thus trust you, unlike yet another MBA suit.