How I Made $1000 Without Really Trying
Published in 2012, this chronicle by @tomcreighton details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing. Key verified financial milestone: $1000.
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
You proved that it's possible to produce a scalable digital product in a short amount of time. That's always encouraging to all of us who are trying to do the same. However, the fact that you presumably haven't created another one since then also proves how hard it is.
It sounds more like you worked hard for two weeks to make that $1000 over a 6-month period. That sounds like trying to me. Of course, there's nothing wrong with trying to make money.
I would have been more interested in reading "How I made $100,000 by trying".
To everybody in this thread: I absolutely should have marketed the hell out of this thing. What was interesting to me was the uptake without putting in that effort. I agreed whole-heartedly that I would have had much better results if I had actually done things 'properly'.