How I built, marketed, and sold a side-project in 3 months.
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"I read the book in one go! It's amazing! Looking forward to reading another one."
Nikola Stojković
Founder of Hosted Status Page
What is the book about?
✨ Build the marketing into your product.
🌱 Discover techniques to grow organically without spending a dime on paid ads.
💡 Learn how to sell an online side project.
🚀 How a Hacker News post got me to accidentally launch on Product Hunt.
📰 Why a big tech magazine covered my side-project and brought in hundreds of visitors.
📈 How I grew an email list to over 470+ subscribers.
🔗 Why so many other websites and blog posts featured my side-project, building incredible backlinks, helping me increase authority on Google.
👫 How and why other awesome makers helped me to create content in exchange for marketing.
🤑 How I sold the side-project on my own using escrow services and made profit.
🔥 Best for: Self-starters and solopreneurs looking to make a profit through side projects.
😉 And many more!
"I highly recommend it. It was exactly what I was expecting, a short, straight forward, plain-english story about a “normal/one of us” kind of entrepreneur."
Luis Gabriel Martins
Founder of Mya Bot
Full review on Product Hunt
Why read it?
Start With A Side-Project is an eBook that gives you a front-row seat into the hustling journey of an aspiring entrepreneur, as he goes through the phases of building, marketing, and eventually selling a side-project within 3 months.

Keeping lean with expenses is a smart choice for all entrepreneurs, that's why you will see how marketing with a $0 ad budget is doable and which organic-marketing techniques work.

Understand from real experience what it takes to sell a digital asset online, including all the phases from listing to escrow.

Whether you're starting or a seasoned entrepreneur, you'll find actionable advice, strategies, and motivation on your path to success with your side-projects.

Get Start With A Side-Project now!
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 want this!
    About the Author
    I built Open Startup List (and sold it eventually) to scratch my own itch about companies that share their metrics publicly - metrics like visitor analytics, marketing experiments - even revenue. It's incredibly motivating as an indie maker to be inspired and involved in the story of like-minded makers.


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