Ask HN: Good resources for starting?
After years of mulling, I've decided to take a more active effort to start a side business. The goal is fairly small, something that can generate around $1400 a month to pay for insurance. Before I do that, though, I need to change some beliefs of mine, one of which is that I have nothing to share or good idea. I'm looking for people's best resources on how to start. Stories about people who have successfully launched a side business. Something that can help to change my beliefs as well as give some good ideas on how to start making something people will pay for.
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If you literally want $1400 you don't need to invent anything. $1400 over a month is $350 a week, or $175 a day for Saturday or Sunday.
Could you generate $200 a day for two days a week? Almost certainly. Anything from cleaning windows, to shovelling snow, or digging gardens. If you've extra skills and experience it should be even easier - child-care, for example, or dog-walking.
Hacker News is obsessed with side-businesses and "passive income", which is often anything but passive. If you're actually just wanting a comparatively small amount of money then there are much easier ways to get it than starting a business.
(Of course if you do explicitly want to start a business, which your post doesn't really seem to suggest, then good luck to you.)
Could you generate $200 a day for two days a week? Almost certainly. Anything from cleaning windows, to shovelling snow, or digging gardens. If you've extra skills and experience it should be even easier - child-care, for example, or dog-walking.
Hacker News is obsessed with side-businesses and "passive income", which is often anything but passive. If you're actually just wanting a comparatively small amount of money then there are much easier ways to get it than starting a business.
(Of course if you do explicitly want to start a business, which your post doesn't really seem to suggest, then good luck to you.)