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Lessons from my first exit

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410 points saeedesmaili | 2 comments | 14 Nov 24 07:32 UTC | HN request time: 0.41s | 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. hellohelu ◴[14 Nov 24 22:05 UTC] No.42141719[source]▶
Thanks for the article. Great read. Can I ask how you sold the website making $100 month?
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2. mtlynch ◴[14 Nov 24 23:54 UTC] No.42142599[source]▶
Just through that blog post linked above. I put up an interest form and got a lot of responses within a day, so I turned off submissions and offered it to the best bid. We did it through Escrow.com, which worked okay.