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by notyourNMI 1916 days ago
Does the book include a chapter such as "Chapter Five : Advertise your project on Hacker News in the form of a request for feedback"?

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.

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Hey, Thanks for the comment, I attached the table-of-contents [1] below, you can see there is no such chapter :)

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