Comment by gregdoesit | Hacker News Reader

Comment by gregdoesit | Hacker News Reader

Congratulations! There's something special about the feeling of you "earning" your first revenue that comes from an online customer you've never met, and not from an employment contract, consulting, or similar "traditional" relationships.

I'm not sure why, but when this first happened with me - it was selling a book I wrote online - it started to change my way of thinking, opening a realm of possibilities I never considered before.

Because if you can sell something to a customer for €10,72, that's €107,20 for 10 customers and €10,720 for 1,000 customers. And, unlike with employment, where there is a limit on salaries, there is no - theoretical - upper limit on your revenue.

Congratulations and hope you keep building your entrepreneurial muscle. Best of luck with the side project and beyond!

Thank you so much, I've been sharing on other places about my side project and they only come back with something in the lines "yeh right, no one will pay for this" ... really nice to hear something as supportive like this :)

>I'm not sure why, but when this first happened with me - it was selling a book I wrote online - it started to change my way of thinking, opening a realm of possibilities I never considered before.

Similar story for me. I published my first ebook under pay what you want model. I was just trying to get my feet wet, so to speak, and I knew there wouldn't be much demand for that book. Getting the first payment was a wonderful feeling. Kept me motivated for the second book, for which I expected lot more demand and it did kickstart my career as an author.

I agree with everything you said.

The commas instead of decimals momentarily threw me off though.

Commas instead of decimals in numbers is the standard in Europe

Not true for Ireland, Malta, Switzerland and United Kingdom.

In Austria at least we only use the comma for the fraction part of a number. So we would write ten million and 75 cents as:

10.000.000,75

F.e.

Yes I'm aware :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decimal_separator#Usage_worldw...

Thanks!

That page has a graph.

Blue (.) seems to be preferred by most (not all) commonwealth nations.

There seems to be a lot more green (,) areas, but the 3 largest countries by population — China, India, and USA — are blue.

Somewhat surprised to see Mexico using dot instead of comma.

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