142 karma · joined February 10, 2010
From your questions it seems you want someone to tell you it's going to be easy - a piece of cake. It's not.
Why not flip the equation and focus on how you can add enough value to 100,000 people a month. That though you're charging them $30 a month they've benefitting to the tune or $3,000 or even $30,000 a month. Plus do this without focusing on your own need for a side stream of income.
Read up a bit and get an idea of what's a good work rate. Work with 3 to 4 people and get an idea of relative work rates.
Your biggest problem isn't that you don't code - it's that you don't know what a really good coder can create + the rate at which he can create.
the mythical man month book would be a good book to read.
Looking at the comments why don't you team up with vlisivka. One big reason to pick someone outside the US is they won't just run off with your idea and there's less of a sense of entitlement.
Coders seem to feel (and I'm one/used to be) that they create 99% of the value, sales creates 1% and everyone else steals off the value they create.
You need to find someone in a country that doesn't have this attitude and East Europe and even South America are perfect.
bet on yourself. expand your work team into a multi-person team.
How many million exactly would you want? what are '3 short years'? Would you be willing to put in 5?would you be willing to put in 10?
What would you do after you had this money? Is it conceivable that you could make your millions doing what you 'dream' of doing right now instead of waiting for after you've made your money?
Why do you have such a weak way of putting it - 'just want to hear people's thoughts about the idea'?
Are you committed to it or not?
Final question - Would you like to make a ton of money without working hard? actually that should have been my first question.
Unless you start asking different questions you're setting yourself up for failure.
just realize that most people are so busy caring about what other people think of them they don't really care much about how you come across.
why do you care what other people think? what's your answer to that question.
don't really get this study and line of thinking.
Are they saying there's an optimum sweet spot because if you don't exercise self control at all then it's hard to have a decent amount of it.
take the same emotion and interpret it as positive.
do you find your life exciting? do you feel you're growing and doing things no one else could?
try and read 'destructive emotions' by the dalai lama and daniel goleman.
It's much easier to build something that makes thousands of dollars a month than something that makes hundreds of dollars (and it keeps scaling up).
It's much easier to succeed when you give yourself a few years than a few months.
Besides his grandkids would be far more interested in what he did and chose.
We are the stars of the movie of our lives. Unless we choose to make someone else the hero.
the getting from 99% to 100% part is good. Perhaps you won't be able to get beyond 99% because of something in your past that makes you reluctant to do 100%. 99% is pretty fucking good if you ask me.
Or do you want to do x amount of work and expect to get $400 a month for life?
price varies widely based on what the word is.
try estibot and valuate.com and domain score to get an idea of what it's worth.
email and don't specify a price. just ask what price he'd like for it. first person to name a figure loses.
if it's much less than valuate and estibot then go for it. right now is NOT a good time for domain names because of the recession.