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Side Hustle

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3 Unusually Painful Mistakes on My Side Project Journey to 100K Users

3 Unusually Painful Mistakes on My Side Project Journey to 100K Users

Mistakes are inevitable when building side projects. Learn from my 3 biggest mistakes to take a shortcut on your side hustle journey. I have not failed. I’ve just found 10,000 ways that won’t work. — Yevgeniy Brikman in Hello, Startup The biggest mistake many people make is to

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Forget About Marketing. Focus on Building The Best Product.

I completely focused on building the best PDF & Web Highlighter Chrome Extension and stopped marketing for 3 months — here is what happened.

Woman covering her face with blanket - Failing Forward: The Importance of Publishing Your Side Projects

Failing Forward: The Importance of Publishing Your Side Projects

Developers often take on side projects as a way to explore their passion for programming and learn new technologies outside of their day-to-day jobs. Unfortunately, too many of those never see the lights of the public. For many developers, programming is a labor of love. - StackOverflow According to the

Rocket launch: 10,000 User Milestone: The Story of My Chrome Extension’s Growth

Rocketing to 10,000 Users: How I Achieved a 270% Increase in Just 9 Months with My Chrome Extension

Learn how I managed to grow the user base of my Chrome extension by 270% in just nine months by applying simple SEO strategies.

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Stop Building The Wrong Product Righter, Build The Right Product

Building products people want to use is hard. There can be many reasons why you aren't getting customers' desired results. Maybe your problem is not you aren’t building the right product. Your problem is you are building the wrong product.