[APPRENTICE]: I would love to be an apprentice / receive advice about bootstrapping online businesses (non-exclusive example: Software-as-a-Service). I find this much more intrinsically rewarding and interesting than mine current ‘conventional’ job (especial being able to focus on areas I find important and to be less driven by external incentives). Ideally I would like to boostrap myself into working full time on my side projects (that is completely replace my current source of income).
I am a backend developer learning frontend these days (React + css frameworks). I think I already have technical skills to make and run services. My weakest area is analyzing the market and demand / finding problems to solve. Also I suspect that I might be too conservative and not trying out enough ideas or committing to ideas without seeing strong demand.
I already have users on a free product I made and even received a donation.
[MENTOR] I can mentor on the technical and partly on the organizational side of bootstrapping businesses. I created the technical infrastructure of a fintech startup from scratch (I’m the CTO, we have ~50 employees right now, tripling every year). I have a systematic plan for what to do when in IT and a rough idea in all other areas. I understand that you know how to provision and deploy web services but you might want to have an idea of what else you need and in which order.
About analyzing marked and demand I suggest you have a look at Paul Graham’s Twitter. The main suggestions he comes back to being
“Build something you yourself want” is to startups what “Write what you know” is to writing.
When startups think a partnership with some big company will be the silver bullet that makes them grow, they’re usually mistaken. What makes you grow is building amazing things and making customers love you.
This is an instance of the more general rule that when startups think anything other than building great things and engaging with users will make them grow, they’re usually mistaken.
[APPRENTICE]: I would love to be an apprentice / receive advice about bootstrapping online businesses (non-exclusive example: Software-as-a-Service). I find this much more intrinsically rewarding and interesting than mine current ‘conventional’ job (especial being able to focus on areas I find important and to be less driven by external incentives). Ideally I would like to boostrap myself into working full time on my side projects (that is completely replace my current source of income).
I am a backend developer learning frontend these days (React + css frameworks). I think I already have technical skills to make and run services. My weakest area is analyzing the market and demand / finding problems to solve. Also I suspect that I might be too conservative and not trying out enough ideas or committing to ideas without seeing strong demand.
I already have users on a free product I made and even received a donation.
[MENTOR] I can mentor on the technical and partly on the organizational side of bootstrapping businesses. I created the technical infrastructure of a fintech startup from scratch (I’m the CTO, we have ~50 employees right now, tripling every year). I have a systematic plan for what to do when in IT and a rough idea in all other areas. I understand that you know how to provision and deploy web services but you might want to have an idea of what else you need and in which order.
About analyzing marked and demand I suggest you have a look at Paul Graham’s Twitter. The main suggestions he comes back to being
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1101071526395342850
and
https://twitter.com/paulg/status/1121384260332658689