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Getting shit done. A guide for lazypreneurs

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I'm waiting for the Google algorithm update that smacks down 400 word blog posts with lots of headers, thin analysis and a "subscribe to my email updates" callout at the end.

Hackernews does not depend on the Google algorithm though, so I'm not sure that would accomplish anything if your goal is to get rid of these articles.

Without search as a channel, there's little reward for writing them.

The chances of an article such as this rising up Hacker News and staying there are thankfully, vanishingly rare.

... just be glad that you have the heuristic implemented in your head. :)

> Toilet/Coffee break? Waiting for the Bus? Keep your project alive by just thinking about it.

Imho, if you aren't doing this already, you shouldn't be an entrepeneur in the first place.

absolutely. one would think so. i know to many people considering themself entrepreneurs who give their projects "business hours" tho.

thats like a guarantee to fail

I asked a guy who had taken four startups to IPO how it was he seemed to work such reasonable hours while other entrepreneurs worked much longer. He said he assumed they were mostly doing trial and error, while he had a better sense of what to do.

> Talk about your project This not only should help you to focus by thinking about it. But also give feedback and social pressure.

I am feeling pangs of horrible boredom just imagining being seated next to someone following this advice at a dinner party. Ugh.

Not to mention that talking about your plans appears to decrease the odds of you doing them

https://sivers.org/zipit

Unless, as alluded at the end, you make a public commitment to achieving your goal. This explains why the whole dollar if you don't thing works for some people.

The gist is it's not great to prematurely celebrate an incomplete goal but it may help having someone or something holding you accountable.

Exactly. I was thinking about peers asking "how is your N coming". 99% of them wont care anyway, but there is a bit pressure and nobody would want to say "i stopped it because i am a lazy bastard".

For me, it helps. I see what the article is trying to tell us tho, i see that it may does not work for everything.

Anecdotally, I still wind up stopping because... I'm a lazy bastard. Feeling like you've failed on a random project that you talked about is demotivating, so I can see the point both ways. I renovated my master bathroom several years ago and had talked about it at work, but I'm lazy ;) so it took about a year to complete. Being the butt of the "so how's the bathroom going ;D" joke at work did not really help my motivation on it, having an upcoming wedding and needing to get it finished did.

I've been working on doing only one project at a time, which has helped with my success rate and self worth. I still think about several and have a hard time focusing, but I try not to talk about them until they're actually in progress if at all.

Huh? Who doesn't love to discuss these things?

Pretty lazy article, too. I guess that should have been expected.

exactly.

Nailed it! :)

Pretty lazy site. Four posts total, about the same number of affiliate links to Fiverr and Digital Ocean, and no examples of how he put this guide into practice in his other (unnamed) "successful site", referred to on his About page.

In fact the article that mentions his other site (the Adsense post) says nothing of thinking about it in the shower, getting feedback or scoping ideas; simply of copying an existing site, knocking out 4 posts of barely 300 words, posting about it on Reddit, and by accident creating something people like.

Still, #3 on HN, so I guess someone likes it.

No idea how the #3 happened as this article (and as you noticed the whole website) is pretty lazy (guess it fits the topic and the idea people love so much to get rich from nothing).

Thanks for the honest critique, you are right. I should probably try harder to build a connection between the articles and actually put some information in there that people can relate to.

Well you lose marks (metaphorically, I don't mean downvotes) for talking about copying another site and doing it better, and then not naming your own site, perhaps because you don't want someone to copy it and do it better. (Unless it's just so Adsense violating that you can't say what it is.)

I think a better article might be one which went through the process and lessons learned in creating and building up your Adsense site. Even if you weren't following your own guide posted here, and it was about how you weren't 100% sure what you were doing, but you learned that this thing worked, and this thing didn't.

I suspect that's going to be more interesting to people than an article giving advice and suggestions that there's no real evidence you've actually (successfully) employed yourself.

Anyway, you win points (a literal upvote) for being good enough to tolerate and respond to criticism here.

Afaik i am not allowed to talk about the numbers when i also mention the site itself, it sucks but i dont want to destroy my adsense income for bragging rights.

You idea for a article is great, i think i also could great something really worth reading in that topic.

This whole thing is a play environment for me and see how people react to different things. (Like again how did that even made it to the frontpage? It was written in less than a hour)

Anyway, i really appreciate your input. Most honest response so far!

Putting the quality of the article aside that others have alluded to, I think it's relevant to share what I've done to combat my 'laziness'.

I actually started daily vlogging and I'm going through the motion of creating a startup in that vlog, sharing all the successes and failures. So bit by bit I get to create something, move that needle and have the YouTube channel to be accountable to. Only been doing it for a month and a half, but it's given me more energy, I'm learning a lot and helping me reach out to other people to move things forward.

While not for everyone, I think it's important to experiment with techniques and try to find something that keeps you going.

That is a great solution. Glad it works for you!

I am to awkward to put myself in front of a camera every day, and honestly i probably would not want to hear any negative comments on what i am doing (on the other side, i am doing well in this thread, its just the anxiety that scares me i guess ;)

For me, being on camera is a personal thing. I don't mind it, but I know doing it every day makes it a lot, lot easier. There's always audio and of course written text to share your journey with.

At the end of the day, you have to start somewhere, and the two things I think are:

1. You are only as good as the last piece of content you put out. So if it gets critically slated, then go learn from it and improve for the next.

2. Embrace the failure, and that includes the negative comments. Take a third person view and treat it all as an experiment which you can learn from. Enjoy the successes and share the learning from failures.

I love how your 2 points perfectly fit my post and the outcome in this thread :)

You are right tho. Especially 2. is something that was hard for me to learn but once i did changed everything. Failing is basically the main source of experience.

In my opinion the main problem with having a hard time motivating yourself to work on a project is the simple fact that subconsciously we don't really feel passionate about it - from the technical point, the problem it solves or the niche it's intended for. Why not take a step back and think if this project is really important to you and something you'd like to work on for the next X months/years, maybe you do it only because you want to learn new technology, or you hope it will make a lot of money, or you want to create something related to your passion, but the project itself is boring, or you feel it's the "future", but not your kind of future. You could read dozen of books, take motivational courses, practive meditation and so on, but if you aren't really, REALLY passionate about the thing you want to create, you'll need to push yourself over and over again, until you get burned out.

Well it depends. My general interest usually starts to fade when i implemented a solution for my problem. The "solutions" i find are not shipable and wont help others in the way they are. The though time after that is polishing it and build a product around it.

Sure i could just not do that ever, but that would lead to nothing as well.

I found other article on this website, pretty entertaining: "Fiverr: my worst experience and why i still like it" https://www.lazypreneur.pw/2016/fiverr-worst-experience-stil...

This must have been upvoted by some bots.

(wonders himself what it does on the frontpage)

(Wonders if you can get on the frontpage through Fiverr.)

(waits for links to fiverr gigs, because #1 sounds sweet too)

Wow, I didn't think I'd find some, but here they are:

https://www.fiverr.com/aashiralvi/upvote-your-reddit-or-hack...

https://www.fiverr.com/nusratria/provide-you-30-real-hacker-...

Found plenty of fiverr tasks for Reddit upvotes, too.

Honestly i did not check i was just joking. I am as surprised as you are O.o But well its fiverr, we shouldnt be surprised. You can buy fiverr comments on fiverr.

Give me my 2 minutes back and also stop writing blog posts. (forever )

assuming i wont do that and chances are high you accidiently will read trough one of my crappy articles in the future. what are the key aspects i should be working on? (except the lazyness of the article itself)

I liked the topic initially but you didn't provide value in that post, you just stated out facts that everyone knew already.

Show research effort, bring value and I'll gladly read through and disable my ad blocker.

This is more of a opinion written by a anonymous someone, i see the issue. Kudos on the honesty, until next time ;)

One tweak I'd change: DON'T talk about what you're going to do, but only talk about what you've done. https://sivers.org/zipit

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