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vinrob92on Ask HN: Best online resources for starting a business in 2022?

If you're interested in starting a productized service / agency I run a small community of entrepreneurs called Productize.Community :-)

vinrob92on Ask HN: Subscription service to hire full stack developers?

Lemon.io perhaps?

I also listed 100 examples of different productized and subscription-based services here: https://manyrequests.com/blog/100-examples-of-productized-se...

vinrob92on Ask HN: What Is Your Blog?

1. Productized services.

2. Haven't updated it in a while but used to be every week

3. Self-hosted, because I wanted custom features (community)

4. https://www.productizedstartups.com

vinrob92on Where do you find freelancers?

I wrote a free book about this (no email wall, it's a Google Doc): www.productizeteam.co

My process:

1. OnlineJobs.ph/Dribbble/JobRack.eu/Local hiring website (exammple: Ejobs.ro)

2. Post a clear job ad with requirements/commitments/application form

3. Video call with the selected applicants

4. (Optional) Paid test task

5. Hired - Sign independent contractor agreement

vinrob92on Tailwind CSS: From Side-Project Byproduct to Multi-Million Dollar Business

We used Tailwind for our newly launched SaaS, so thanks for that!

vinrob92on Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

https://www.productizedstartups.com

I interview productized service founders sharing their stories and revenue figures transparently.

vinrob92on Ask HN: What is your blog and why should I read it?

I interview productized service founders and they all share their revenue transparently: https://www.productizedstartups.com

vinrob92on A Woman Who Lives 200k Years in the Past

Actually in several cases bullets are not removed as removing them may cause further damage: https://www.carenade.com/blog/bullet-time/

vinrob92on Any must do courses in the field of Digital Marketing for newbies?

If you'd like to learn how to productize your digital marketing services (or any other digital services), I recently wrote a free book: http://www.productizebook.co -- Launching a course soon as well :)

vinrob92on Show HN: I wrote a free book on building remote teams

Hi!

1 - I am testing candidates. Giving them two paid tasks.

2 - I found time tracking tools to be inhumane, especially for creative work (like designers), but I do understand it can be useful for other job positions.

3 - We have 35+ staff, so while we don't have the most optimized productivity data, we have a good "benchmark" as we can compare employee performance.

4 - We give 2 warnings, with comments and opportunities to grow, then we terminate the employee. So far it hasn't happened yet.

vinrob92on Ask HN: What landing page do you love?

Lots of them on https://www.land-book.com are great.

vinrob92on Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

Totally! Building a community has helped me to know what customers wanted.

How I did it: - Started a small Facebook group, added friends - Started connecting on FB with productized service entrepreneurs, added them to the group - Mentioned the group in various places (Twitter/Indie Hackers/...)

vinrob92on Ask HN: What niche blogs are worthwhile to follow?

On productized services: (https://www.productizedstartups.com) with interviews of productized service entrepreneurs.

vinrob92on Ask HN: What did you build in 2019?

I built the following things:

- A SaaS for productized services (https://www.manyrequests.com)

- I wrote a book (in 24 hours) on productized services: (http://www.productizebook.co)

- I also grew a FB group (Productized Startups) to 1950+ members on the topic of productized services.

My goal for 2020 for my SaaS is to hit 150 customers or $10k/month in monthly recurring revenue.

To achieve that goal I plan to:

- Improve the UI of the SaaS in Q1 and Q2

- Release one piece of content per day

- Grow my community of productized startups founders to 4k members

vinrob92on Besides “Show Hacker News”, where do you promote your side projects?

* IndieHackers

* Niche Facebook groups

vinrob92on UnDraw: Open-source illustrations for every project you can imagine and create

Thank you for mentioning the ManyPixels gallery! We set it up as we wanted to provide different style of illustrations. It is also a great marketing tool for our main business.

vinrob92on Ask HN: Which platforms do founders mostly use to launch products?

Niche Facebook groups are a great way to launch your product as well.

vinrob92on Ask HN: Any (tech) black friday deals you'd recommend?

We are having a Black Friday deal at ManyPixels: https://manypixels.co/black-friday

vinrob92on I built a $18,000/month content writing productized service

I reached out individually to every single productized service entrepreneur featured in those interviews and made sure they go in-depth with their answers. Not sure how that qualifies as webspam?

vinrob92on I built a $18,000/month content writing productized service

Yes, done-for-you blog posts.

vinrob92on I built a $18,000/month content writing productized service

Her packages are between $500 to $3500/month so she got to that MRR only with a handful of customers.

vinrob92on Show HN: I built a website with productized service case studies

Thanks!

vinrob92on Ask HN: What's a promising area to work on?

Productized services :) People want the "job done" more and more and that is going to apply to many more services, mostly enabled by tech!

I am also running a pretty growing community on that on FB (Productized Startups)

vinrob92on Ask HN: Which online communities do you hang out most on?

Productized Startups - a fb group I started just to talk about about productized services.

vinrob92on Ask HN: Good Remote Work Literature?

I wrote two free books specifically on productized services.

The first book discuss how to productize your services and hire and manage remote workers (and it covers the tools and techniques to work remotely). The second book is mostly about value proposition and marketing.

1) http://www.productizebook.co 2) http://www.productizemarketing.co

vinrob92on Show HN: I Built a Spreadsheet of Productized Services

Thanks, hope you enjoyed the book!

vinrob92on Show HN: I Built a Spreadsheet of Productized Services

Here is the link of the spreadsheet: http://www.productizematrix.co

vinrob92on Ask HN: Freelancer? Seeking Freelancer? (July 2019)

SEEKING WORK / REMOTE - WORLD

My name is Robin and I run ManyPixels, an unlimited design service.

For a flat monthly fee, you can get your personal, high quality designer that works solely for you. It starts at $399/month but use the code MP25OFF for 25% off on your first month.

https://www.manypixels.co

blog: https://blog.manypixels.co