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It isn't an App Store app, he's taking payment on his own site and delivering PNGs to an email address.

Not sure how I feel about the article. Kind of reads like those "I got stupid lucky this one time, so can you!" fluff pieces at best, and at worst is just further advertisement/marketing for the icon pack.

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> I got stupid lucky this one time, so can you!

If you publish often, act immediately, be transparent, etc, etc. Luck is at the intersection of preparation and opportunity.

It is advertisement for his "Notion to Website" product. It's nicely done, because this is the first thing I got from the article, and I think so will most entrepreneur types reading it. The whole point is "I made $100k from being able to quickly spin up a website + payment system at the right time".

Not sure how far you read, but the "lessons learned" at the bottom abstracts very well from the necessary but not sufficient "I got lucky" condition. I found it informative.

> just further advertisement/marketing for the icon pack.

this reads 100% like most blog posts looking to promote their product. a bit of inspiration wrapped around 'try my product!', with a dash of bragging about their success.

> a bit of inspiration wrapped around 'try my product!'

Where exactly did you find a “try my product” in the post?

The notion stuff. The entire post is about using his product to quickly create a website that capitalizes on timing.

Ok, I hear you. But I disagree that the entire post is about that. It was just a paragraph (which I didn’t even really notice initially).

I shared the post with the sole goal of sharing the story behind it. I only linked the icons so people can have context.

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