[HN Gopher] Ask HN: Best resources on starting a lifestyle busin...
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Ask HN: Best resources on starting a lifestyle business?
After working in RevOps and sales for VC-backed startups for a few
years, I'm considering creating a SaaS business that helps solve
problems for a particular niche industry that interests me. What
are some resources that are useful to look at while I consider
embarking on this journey? My experience in RevOps & sales the
last few years has been that so many influencers are trying to
pitch you their guides and resources for a fee. It's made me
suspicious of pretty much anyone selling their insights and made it
hard to determine which are of actual value.
Author : hdanirwin
Score : 38 points
Date : 2024-02-18 19:47 UTC (3 hours ago)
| hermitcrab wrote:
| I've been running a bootstrapped, lifestyle software business
| since 2005. I've linked to some articles you might find relevant
| here (for free!): https://successfulsoftware.net/starting-a-
| microisv/
| jawmes8 wrote:
| Big fan of your articles! I have a few bookmarked that I like
| to read every now and then
| hermitcrab wrote:
| Cool. I hope they are helpful.
| jmstfv wrote:
| a few years ago, there was this forum for bootstrapped founders
| running small-ish, profitable, and mature internet businesses --
| a spiritual successor to the Joel on Software's forum.
|
| it's been offline for a while, but the read-only archive is still
| accessible: https://discuss.bootstrapped.fm/
| hermitcrab wrote:
| discuss.bootstrapped.fm is well worth a look. I miss Joel's
| Business of Software forum (I was one of the moderators) -
| sadly I don't think that is still available.
| Adrig wrote:
| In case you don't already know, the indiehacker community is now
| quite mature with a few folks sharing their stories and lessons
| up to a few $M of ARR.
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| Microconf is also very high quality with great talks out there, a
| podcast and a slack community. Focused on SAAS software. Rob
| Walling, the founder, wrote a book recently. Not my area, but I
| heard good things about it.
|
| I also like the Tropical MBA podcast. They get stories from
| entrepreneurs outside the shiny bubble (agency owners, Amazon
| FBA, SEO software, affiliates, etc)
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| Books that might interest you : Company of one by Paul Jarvis ;
| Profit First by Mike Michalowicz ;
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| Other good resources for entrepreneurs: - Seth Godin & Robert
| Cialdini for marketing - The Mom Test (how to talk to your users)
| - Made to Stick (how to craft stories and narratives) - $100M
| offers & $100M leads by Hormozi (currently reading them, it's
| mainly common concepts put in a simple and actionable way)
| petesergeant wrote:
| I'm enjoying being a member of Ramen Club https://ramenclub.so/
| stanislavb wrote:
| Not exactly a resource but more of an advice - learn software
| development. Unless you are familiar to some extent, you will
| always be dependent on a competent software engineer, and that
| will make it much harder to build a lifestyle business.
|
| Second advice, use Ruby on Rails or Django as a web framework and
| don't follow after the complexities of JS and other newcomers.
| Phoenix (Elixir) is awesome but that will require much more
| efforts and expertise compared to the established and time-tested
| Rails and Django.
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| Good luck!
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| p.s. I'm writing this as a person managing a lifestyle business
| (LibHunt & SaaSHub).
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| p.p.s. I'd also recommend getting into the IndieHackers community
| for inspiration and shared experience.
| golergka wrote:
| As a JS developer, I second this. I love node, react and
| typescript, but they're great tools to build very complex web
| apps -- think Figma or an in-browser IDE.
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| If you're building a typical CRUD app and don't have a VC-
| backed budget, just use a Django or Rails.
| hermitcrab wrote:
| Contrary view. Your success running a lifestyle software
| business is likely to be far more dependent on your marketing
| skills and efforts that what what tech stack you use.
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