Quick background: we're the team behind Trickle.so, where we help people build apps and websites with AI. We've been deep in the AI tooling space for a while now, and something kept bugging us.
2.5 years ago I decided to quit the rat race and I left my career in big tech to go work for myself, on my own terms. Initially, I was going to focus all my attention on building a SaaS, but I quickly realized I didn't want to put all my eggs in one basket. Fast forward to today, I make and sell educational info products, do some contracting (working quarter-time at Gumroad), run a SaaS business, and at the end of this month, I also plan to get into selling physical products.I made $550K+ in revenue since I started working for myself, with over $400K coming from info products. Ask me anything!
Started as a weekend project in 2011, Gumroad has grown with its fair share of ups and downs to helping 94,000+ creators earn over $500,000,000. In February 2019, I published a Medium essay, Reflecting on My Failure to Build a Billion-Dollar Company,
Last 5 years my job was my hobby. And then I felt burning out emotionally. Thats why now I decided to do tennis, dancing and painting apart from work. I m wondering how much time is okay for that.
My biggest takeaway is that Failure is a Redirection. My first Print on Demand store was a big mess and a complete failure. But instead of giving up, I tried looking up Digital Marketing on the whole, back in 2021. That's what helped me pivot towards Copywriting and Content Writing 6 months later. Today, I'm happy I make money as a Writer online. If I had given up after my first startup's failure, I would've just gone back to my boring, miserable life of studying to participate in the rat race.
A little over a week ago I had the thought of creating a poster that would serve as a constant reminder of my financial goal for 2018. I figured other people might want the same thing -- so I made this.
Applydog is a search engine that crawls career sites to harvest openings listed directly by companies. I'd love for you to give it a try. There are currently over 90,000 jobs listed from several thousand companies and growing.
Convert HEIC images to JPGs online fast via libheic in the browser. This site is 100% browser-based with no download or upload required. Your photos are converted on your computer.
I'm building a new thing using what I call Slender Stack Development -- a combination of no- & low-code platforms -- to streamline the process. Instead of using toy examples to illustrate, I'm documenting my process of creating something real from scratch.
A call to action to promote diversity and inclusion in data science, this comic chronicles the journey of Brandon Jackson into the field and provides an introduction to the career path.
