T_R_I_P

Take yourself out of it and read your post. You’re missing the point. I think this is a very human time for you. It’s like an actor that thinks their sitcom isn’t enough then does movies and finds that’s not enough. You now know doing something valuable has its merits and benefits for mental health. But maybe take a vacation and reset. Dude. 100-500k? You fucking did it! Yeah new ventures are a new challenge but you’re more likely to succeed after succeeding once before. Be wise since you have something to lose. You don’t have to earn for a long time, start with sweat equity why not? Work wherever you want. Hit the beach after. Tackle your mental situation (depressive thoughts etc) and what you do and need to do come with ease. Don’t lose sight of the big picture. Crashes are super common when you attach yourself to a quest that is now complete. Makes you forget the world is in a constant state of flux and to accept it. You’re exactly where you need to be just take a step back and come back even harder after a reset

Gain a skill and make businesses/stsrtups with that skill. Coding is one example but there are others. Or find a way to make more money first jobs etc

Work at fiverr and elevate your asking price over time as reviews and happy customers grow. Sounds like you haven’t been doing any scaling methods like that. Also, broaden your skills if you can. Design Amazon product images or some other niche design. Do web design as a whole, branch into functionality and you are a web developer. Don’t have to do backend if you don’t want. I’ve tried making many businesses and have only bought graphic design on fiverr for up to $20 at once. I use AI generated services now for the icons etc I can’t make. Unlimited retries and buy for $15

Thanks for sharing. Not sure if you’re an engineer but UI looks great good visuals and I like how you informed everything about product even added pricing packages all on landing page nicely done

Whew! Good to know man. I guess you can at least schedule package pickups. I figured with those numbers you either are working on getting shipping partners or resigned yourself to packing 1-2hr most days. That said your hourly rate for that is like $1000 so that helps the motivation for sure haha. Well done mate I see why you’d wanna exit one day given the labor. If you can automate/delegate more maybe it can be a casual passive thing but the ball’s in your court! Appreciate the response and best of luck!

Right, he’s selling too fast because he’s underpriced it for the value they’re getting

Since you aren’t using Amazon FBA to handle shipments, does that mean you’re hand-packing/labeling, managing returns etc yourself? Isn’t that excessive to do daily with those revenue numbers? Or are you searching for FBA-esque shipping solutions to work with for your store? I sell on FBA only comfortably profiting around $500 and can’t imagine packing all day. You’ve also convinced me ads can have way higher than 1 ROAS just gotta keep at it!

Since you aren’t using Amazon FBA to handle shipments, does that mean you’re hand-packing/labeling, managing returns etc yourself? Isn’t that excessive to do daily with those revenue numbers? Or are you searching for FBA-esque shipping solutions to work with for your store? I sell on FBA only comfortably profiting around $500 and can’t imagine packing all day. You’ve also convinced me ads can have way higher than 1 ROAS just gotta keep at it!

As a fellow software engineer I highly recommend getting your beak wet yourself. Software products need advertised like anything else (I’m taking notes from this guy) but costs little to no money to grow and maintain. Do a side job for ad budget. Anything you do now, if it works, will be massive in 1-5 years, or you’ll get the knowledge needed to make a better idea work down the road

Lot of software businesses. Also sell on Amazon fba. Software you can build and maintain on your own just takes a lot of time. Pay accountants/bookkeepers get rocket lawyer for law questions. When things scale maybe I’ll start hiring but why create overhead if you don’t have to