Show HN: I wrote a book about my side-project
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Half-kidding, half-serious. I'm thinking of those books with titles like "How to make lots of money" where the opener is "Chapter One: Write a book about how to make money"
Jokes aside, kudos for writing about your experience and putting it out there for others to benefit from. That's further than many will dare to go.
I agree, I also despise books that claim to take you from 0 to 100 in no time and/or teach you how to make lots of money.
In the description I clearly state that I'm sharing my personal story, which consists of practical advice, I don't make any promises. Even the book title doesn't promise anything, or says "How to..", but rather encourages you to start a side-project / side-hustle.
The goal of this book was to share my experience of building, running and selling a small side-project. So far I got good reviews and people whom I asked for feedback have clearly said that they enjoyed my book and would recommend :)
[1] Table-of-contents:
1. Introduction 2. Background - My 1st online endeavor and takeaways - My 2nd online endeavor and takeaways - From e-commerce to software side-projects - Idea 3. Building - Technology - Build fast - Launch like a boss 4. Growing - Target market - Organic marketing - It's what you give - Monetization attempts 5. Selling - Should I sell - Everything's got a price - How to sell - Logistics 6. Post-acquisition
I wrote a short and to-the-point book about my "adventure" of finding an interesting idea for a side-project (hence the name of the book), building upon this idea, marketing the project (while learning marketing) and eventually selling it to another entrepreneur (as a first "acquisition" experience).
The book entails interesting bits of information as I you read along this journey that took me 3 months from ideation to acquisiton.
I would love to hear your feedback about it! :)