How I built 21 startups in 2 years
Summary
TLDR视频讲述了一位软件工程师在2021年11月被解雇后,如何通过快速构建21个副项目,其中10个发展成为盈利的初创企业,并最终实现了每月55,000美元的收入。视频中分享了寻找创业点子的三种方法:解决自己的问题、解决普遍问题以及通过体验新生活发现新问题。强调了快速构建和发布产品的重要性,以避免期望过高导致的失望和创业失败的风险。提出了构建产品时应遵循的原则,如只构建核心功能,避免免费用户模式,并考虑一次性支付而非订阅模式。最后,视频还提到了作者使用的技术栈,并鼓励观众关注其YouTube频道,以获取更多关于创业和产品开发的信息。
Takeaways
- 🚀 **快速迭代**:快速构建并推出产品可以减少失败时的损失,并快速学习市场反馈。
- 💡 **解决自身问题**:通过解决自己遇到的问题来找到创业点子,这样即使失败也能获得个人解决方案。
- 🌟 **通用问题**:针对普遍问题(如提高收入、改善睡眠质量)的产品有更广泛的市场。
- 📈 **避免免费用户**:免费用户很少转化为付费用户,应避免提供免费计划以减少潜在的收入损失。
- 🔍 **简化功能**:只构建产品的核心功能,避免不必要的功能以加速开发过程。
- 💰 **定价策略**:选择一次性支付而非订阅模式,以验证市场需求并简化销售过程。
- 🛠️ **技术栈选择**:坚持使用熟悉的技术栈,除非有充分理由,否则不要改变。
- 📝 **记录与分享**:通过社交媒体分享学习过程和经验,可以建立观众群体并提高个人品牌。
- 🌐 **全球化视野**:即使产品针对特定行业,也应考虑全球市场需求,以扩大潜在用户基础。
- 📈 **增长策略**:通过Reddit、Twitter等平台推广产品,利用社区和网络效应增加曝光度。
- 🎯 **持续学习**:不断学习新技能和尝试新事物,以发现新的创业机会。
Q & A
视频中提到的个人在2021年11月被解雇后开始做什么?
-视频中的个人在2021年11月被解雇后开始构建副业项目。
他成功将多少个副业项目转变为盈利的初创公司?
-他成功将10个副业项目转变为盈利的初创公司。
他目前作为独立创业者的月收入是多少?
-他目前作为独立创业者的月收入是55,000美元。
他提到了哪三种找到初创公司想法的方法?
-他提到了三种找到初创公司想法的方法:解决自己的问题、解决普遍问题以及通过体验全新的生活来发现问题。
他是如何通过解决自己的问题来创建Zenvoice的?
-他通过解决Stripe支付后客户需要正式发票的问题来创建Zenvoice,这是一个围绕Stripe API构建的小工具,允许Stripe商家的客户通过一个特殊链接输入电子邮件地址,然后检索和下载他们的购买发票。
他提到了哪些可以寻找初创公司想法的个人生活领域?
-他提到可以在工作场所、个人爱好或者通过尝试新的活动和旅行来寻找初创公司的想法。
他为什么建议快速构建和发布初创公司产品?
-他建议快速构建和发布初创公司产品是为了减少失败时的损失,避免期望过高导致的失望和疲劳,同时快速学习市场营销、产品发布、客户支持、税务和法律等各方面的知识。
他提到了哪些产品开发时应避免的问题?
-他提到产品开发时应避免提供免费用户和复杂的订阅模式,因为这可能会减少实际收入并增加销售难度。
他建议在产品开发中应该构建哪种类型的功能?
-他建议只构建那些对用户来说绝对必要的功能,即那些不可或缺的产品特性。
他对于定价策略有什么建议?
-他建议避免免费用户计划,并且推荐一次性支付而不是循环订阅,以便快速验证需求并简化销售过程。
他提到了哪些技术栈用于构建Zenvoice?
-他提到了使用React和Next.js作为前端框架,Stripe处理支付,Tailwind CSS作为组件库,MongoDB作为数据库,以及Mailgun处理电子邮件事务。
他如何分享他在构建Zenvoice过程中的学习经历?
-他通过在YouTube上直播编码过程,分享他在构建Zenvoice过程中的学习经历。
Outlines
🚀 从失业到成功创业:快速构建副项目的重要性
视频的第一部分讲述了讲述者在2021年11月作为软件工程师被解雇后,如何开始构建副项目,并在今天成功地将其中的10个转化为盈利的初创公司,月收入达到55,000美元。他分享了如何快速找到并构建初创公司的想法,强调了快速构建副项目是他收入增长的关键。讲述者提出了三种找到创业想法的方法:解决自己的问题、解决普遍问题以及体验新生活以发现新问题。此外,他还分享了关于如何避免在创业初期就烧尽所有资源的个人经验,以及如何通过解决自己的问题来确保即使初创公司失败,也能从中获得价值。
🛠️ 构建和推出产品的正确方法:快速迭代与学习
第二部分深入讨论了如何构建产品,以及为什么快速构建和推出对于避免创业失败至关重要。讲述者强调了大多数初创公司失败的原因是市场需求不足,并分享了个人在2016年创业时的经历,说明了为何长时间的开发而不推出产品会导致期望与现实之间的巨大差距,从而引起创业疲劳。他提倡快速构建最小可行产品(MVP),以快速学习和验证市场需求。此外,讲述者还讨论了产品特性的选择,建议只构建那些对用户绝对必要的功能,并以他正在构建的Zenvo初创公司为例,说明了如何简化Stripe发票处理流程。他还提到了定价策略,建议避免免费用户和复杂的订阅模式,而是采用一次性支付来验证市场需求。最后,讲述者分享了他使用的技术开发栈,并提到了他在YouTube上直播编码的过程。
📈 2023年的增长和未来规划:持续分享与学习
在视频的第三部分,讲述者分享了他在2023年的增长情况,包括他的初创公司利润的增加以及他如何认真对待YouTube频道,计划每周分享一次视频。他鼓励观众订阅他的频道,以便了解他的进展和学习内容。此外,讲述者还提到了他计划在产品开发完成后,通过Reddit和Twitter等平台进行推广的策略。
Mindmap
Keywords
💡软件工程师
💡副业项目
💡独立创业者
💡Stripe API
💡解决问题
💡通用问题
💡快速构建
💡最小可行产品(MVP)
💡定价策略
💡技术栈
💡直播编码
Highlights
在2021年11月被解雇后,我开始了21个副项目,其中10个变成了盈利的初创企业,现在我作为独立创业者每月赚取55,000美元。
快速构建初创企业是提高软件工程师薪资5倍的关键。
寻找创业点子的三种方式:解决自己的问题、解决普遍问题、体验全新的生活。
通过解决自己的问题,如创建Zenvoice来简化Stripe发票,可以为Stripe商家提供更好的服务。
如果初创企业失败,至少你解决了自己的问题,并且更容易向客户销售产品。
通用问题,如提高收入、改善睡眠质量、健康饮食或提高生产力,是创业的好起点。
通过为逃脱室业务提供软件工具,我赚取了互联网上的第一美元。
快速构建和发布产品以避免期望过高导致的疲劳,并从失败中学习。
大多数初创企业失败是因为人们实际上不需要这些产品。
在构建产品时,只构建一个不可或缺的功能,以加快上市速度。
避免免费用户和订阅制,以验证需求并简化商业模式。
选择一个技术栈并坚持下去,不要因为客户不在乎而改变。
我使用React、Next.js、Stripe、Tailwind CSS、MongoDB和Next Authentication等技术构建Zenvo。
通过在YouTube上直播编码,我分享了构建Zenvo的过程。
我计划在产品构建完成后,在Reddit和Twitter等平台上推出Zenvo。
2023年,随着更多的初创企业变得盈利,我的收入率正在增加。
我认真对待YouTube,并计划每周分享一个视频。
Transcripts
when I got fired as a software engineer
in November 2021 I started to build side
project fast forward to today I launched
21 side project 10 of them became
profitable startups and I'm now earning
$55,000 a month as a solo entrepreneur
in this video I am going to share how I
get startup IDs and why building them
really fast was the key to 5x my
software engineer salary let's get into
it all right so let's talk about how to
find startup idas there are three ways
to find them the first one is to solve
your own problems let me illustrate this
with an example those are all my 21 site
projects and 10 of them are making money
and one of the most common customer
requests I receive is can I get a proper
invoice I work with stripe to process
all the payments that go through my
startups and sometimes the receipt is
not enough in customer uh mostly
Europeans want to have an invoice that
is properly formatted and as a business
owner this is not a very fun part so I
bu I'm building Zen voice it's a little
uh wrapper around the stripe API that
gives stripe business owners a special
link that they can send to the customers
where they input their email addresses
and then they can retrieve all the
purchases they've made with the business
and then they can see the invoice they
can uh edit some details to it add their
name or their business detail like V8
number all that kind of things and they
can download their invoice and they're
happy uh this is my way of solving my
own problems and yours might be
different so you might want to look at
what's going on around in your life that
you can solve a perfect example to do
that is to look around if you have a job
what's going on there uh maybe uh it
could be a little piece of software for
your team to be more productive during
meeting using and AI uh video summary
tool or something like that there are a
bunch of uh problem that you can search
around if this is not in your job you
can look around in your hobbies for
instance maybe you feel lonely playing
tennis by yourself and you need to find
a partners that are relevant um skills
with you and you could make an app to
find some of those people those kind of
IDs are the best because first if your
stup fail you still end up having a
solution to your own problem so you're
happy with that and second it's much
easier to sell a uh software or whatever
a product if you speak the language of
your customer so if it's for a problem
that you've been
experiencing uh sometimes you might not
have any uh problem in mind and you want
to solve Universal problems un what I
call Universal problems are problems
like um every businesses want to make
more money and everybody in life wants
to have good quality sleep um eat
healthy food and um whatever read books
or be productive um those are PR that
pretty much anyone could experience and
those are good way to get started in
entrepreneurship if you don't find any
problem so for instance that's how I
made my first internet uh dollar um I
used to work with escape room businesses
and I used to sell them a mini tool like
a little piece of software that will
help improve the conversions on their
websites I do not care about the Escapo
industry at all whatsoever but I found
out that if I manage to get more money
for for some businesses so Universal
need using one of my uh software product
then this is a perfect combo they're
happy I'm happy uh this is a quick demo
this is one of my customer um that is
actually still paying after 5 years uh
for my software this is an escape room
business and they you they use my
software at the bottom left this little
key here will be shown to every visitor
and if you visit the website of the
escape room business you'll be able to
play an escape room small online escape
room game on the Business website so
this is a tool that just in to convert
to have some fun engaging game for
visitors and to convert those visitors
into more customers and in never Ed
businesses that I work with would get
10% more customers from their website
which is really great I ended up um
ditching the business because I have no
specific care for the Escape rooms
industry but that was a really great way
to get stting into entrepreneurship
because you still have to build a
product do the marketing launching and
all that and in the case you have no uh
problem that you want to solve and you
uh you don't want to do this like
solving those Universal problems there's
nothing that comes to your mind you can
try experiencing a brand new life uh
that means traveling abroad and meeting
new people that means starting a new
hobby um try new stuff with an open mind
where you will experience new problems
that will come to your life and that
could bring you some startups ideas once
you get an IDE the next part is to
actually build it and we're going to
talk about this to make sure that you
build it fast so in the case it's a flop
you don't burn out all right so let me
tell you a little story when I started
entrepreneurship in 20 16 I believed I
was Mark zukerberg and I had a secret
brilliant ID in mind that was that was
going to become a unicorn after spending
a year in my bedroom building that ID I
ended up having zero users and Zer in
Revenue I burned out um I quit the
product I couldn't see it anymore I also
uh left my girlfriend and go change
travel to a new country and change my
life um the thing is when you spend so
much time building a product the brain
start to have some expectations and the
more time you spend on it the more your
expectations will be be so the better
the reward will be expected and if the
reward isn't uh coming as it's mostly
the case in entrepreneurship you will
burn out and you want to avoid that at
all cost and the second reason is that
most startups fail um the main reason is
that people don't actually need the
startup I think the number is around 90%
of startup fail so you want to avoid um
losing your time on something that might
not even work out and so that's why U
building and shipping fast is very
important and at the same time when you
ship fast you going to learn how to
Market your startup how to launch it how
to handle customer support tax legal and
a bunch of other things that will be
useful for the future and at the same
times if you like um you know sharing
what you uh learn along the way you can
grow a little audience like I did in the
last two years on my Twitter where uh
now I have over 70k followers uh because
I was sharing everything that I was
doing and learning just like I'm doing
now on YouTube all right so now that
we've set up the mindset it's important
to know which feature you will or will
not build and as a general rule of themb
build just one Fe feature that feature
that you cannot remove from your product
otherwise it just doesn't exist so for
every feature that you have in mind ask
yourself is it necessary for the users
to have this feature if the answer is
yes keep it but if it's not a necessary
like absolute necessary feature just
remove it let's get to a concrete
example of Zenvo the startup that I'm
building right now the goal is to
simplify stripe invoices for small
business owners like me and the main
feature is just this people input their
email and they get their invoice from
stripe I have a bunch of other IDs for
invoice so U business owners to be able
to view all the invoices that have been
generated um to simplify the texting to
interact with a stripe API to upload
those invoices and ab like really a
numerous number of features that I want
to implement but I'm going to launch
with just one feature this one that I
just show you right now which is
generating invoices that way I will be
able to launch my startup faster to get
customers feedback earlier and it's
likely that nobody will actually need
the the product maybe it's just me or
maybe I'm faking a need in my head and
nobody will want to use it so this is
why I will spend about 2 weeks finishing
the product launch it and see how the
market react and once you're going to go
on launching your product the pricing is
also very important because that will
determine whether you validate or not a
need um as a general Ru them there are
two things you want to avoid or at least
make better is at first you want to
avoid free users um in the VC world it's
very common to have um free plans and to
burn a lot of money get a lot of users
and then later convert those users into
pay plans but as a solo entrepreneur uh
like me if you have a limited budget you
might not be able to burn lots of money
or you might not be able to bring
millions of visitors to your website and
most of free users never convert to paid
plans so if you have uh a pay a free
plan that might be killing your paid
plan and and reducing your uh actual
income so you want to get rid of that
the second part is that there is a real
subscription headache going on out there
there are subscriptions for
absolutely everything nowadays and it's
much harder to sell a $99 a month
subscription than it is to sell a 100
bucks onetime payment this is what I'm
going to do for my new startup Zenvo um
TR business owners could use my product
every day every week so it could make
sense to have some recurring payments
but I'm not going to do that instead I'm
going to go with one time payments and
so that I can validate the le as soon as
I can and if I see that there are some
customers who actually use the product
and want more of that then later on I
can eventually switch to a recuring um
membership but for now I'm going to
stick to the simplest which is onetime
payment and finally when you're about to
build you want to choose a text tack so
if you are a programmer and you already
know your text tacks you're familiar
with that you can build anything on web
apps or whatever stick with it don't
change it the customers don't care about
the text tack so there is no need to
change uh any of the things that you're
using stick with what you already know
and if you are getting started this is
my textt here I'm using uh react and
nextjs on top of it uh stripe for
payments tailin CSS for the components
uh with Daisy UI as a library mongodb as
a database next authentification for uh
user authentification accounts and all
that and mail gun for uh email
transactional emails uh this is also a
little product that I built it's a ball
plate that encapsulates all those uh
stack that I'm using and if you want to
check it out it's called chipas if you
are curious about the coding part of it
I am actually live streaming myself
coding Zen voice in public on YouTube so
you can see my YouTube channel all the
replays from the last couple days uh you
will see me mostly trying to debug my
own code um currently the product is uh
working so people can create accounts
they can connect their stripe accounts
to it and have a little link that they
can share to the customers so they can
input their email and retrieve their
invoice edit them and download them um
I'm going to spend the next weeks or so
finishing the product before launching
it on platforms like reddits productons
and Twitter the strategy I'm using in
this video about finding IDs and
building them pass is the exact same
strategy that I used to build my 21 side
project and this is working better and
better for me as you can see here my
heat rate um is increasing in 2023 more
of the startups that I built are
profitable and making more money than
they used to in 2022 when I got started
from scratch I'm taking also YouTube
seriously this year and I'm going to be
sharing one video per week so if you
want to uh see what I'm doing and what
I'm learning uh you can subscribe to
your channel and if you like the video
you can like the video cheers
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