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Comment by emmanueloga_ | Hacker News Reader

So 13 years after the publication of this article... how many people in here can say that they "followed the advice" and successfully managed to accrue "1000 true fans"?

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I'm making a living with just over 100 true fans building Simplescraper: https://simplescraper.io/.

An extra zero would be nice but I'm very grateful for 100. In addition to the article above, these writings provided a lot of inspiration:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20090321145348/https://plentyoff...

- https://medium.com/signal-v-noise/reconsider-41adf356857f

- https://blog.nugget.one/upstart/building-a-one-man-saas-app-...

As one of your true fans, I use simple scraper regularly and it’s great.

Are they true fans in that they would happily pay for anything you build, or are they customers who pay for this service and would think before paying for another of your services?

How long it takes to get to the point when such a project could bring real money to leave full-time job? How much knowledge someone has to have to build such a thing?

This looks amazing. But I doubt if it would work because the reality is always complicated. Anyway I will try it out.

I teach roughly 100k students through online courses. Whenever I release a new course, I get ~1% who immediately purchase it. Not sure if it's because I tend to produce high quality material which adds value to this niche audience, or if they are "die hard fans". I tend to believe it is the former. At least I hope so.

Is it always the same group?

What do you teach?

He has the same username on Udemy: https://www.udemy.com/user/thomas-wiesner-3/

Advice in 2008, a trend in 2018, common sense in 2028, unfathomable that people in history lived any other way in 2048.

If only it was that easy... I really like the spirit of the "1000 true fans" slogan, but I think it is harder than you'd think. I only see a handful of success stories in a big pool of HN ppl discussing it here.

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