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1. how many side projects have you had? was this the only successful exit?

2. how do you come up with the startup/tool ideas?

1. Too many to count. The trick is to ship fast and see what sticks. Focus on that, ignore the rest. Tweet Photo is my first legit exit, but some of my other side projects have turned into $xxx,xxx/year businesses. Just haven't sold them :)

2. Usually out of necessity. Something I want myself, but can't find an (appealing) existing solution for.

I'd be interested in hearing about some of these other side projects (well, the financially successful ones anyway). Do you have a list somewhere?

My Twitter bio has a list of many of my projects: https://twitter.com/marckohlbrugge

Most notable:

https://betalist.com (2010): $xxx,xxx/year

https://startup.jobs (2016): $xx,xxx/year (could hit $xxx,xxx this year)

https://wip.chat (2017): $xx,xxx/year

congrats, that's awesome.

are they all 100% owned by you or did you drink out of the poisoned foundation (vc)?

also how do you toss up many sass so quickly? do you just have an auth and payment module you're comfortable that you reuse for every project?

Thanks. All owned 100% by me. No outside funding or co-founders.

I use Ruby on Rails which has a lot of pre-made libraries for common tasks.

I’ve been building products for 10+ years though. So it’s mostly a matter of time I think

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