I have a lot of product ideas, probably like a lot of you reading this blog. When I started this blog, I wanted this to be an archive of different product ideas I come up with.
The reason I wanted to is because, at that point in time, I had learned the hard way to persevere with my business. I had too many instances where I started with a new website only to lose interest within a month or two and would switch to the next big thing.
Since I had no intention of starting my own side-projects, I figured it would be nice to have a log of all these ideas here on a blog.
In 2021, I have made a conscious decision to outsource a lot of my everyday job (which is related to content marketing) to other freelancers. I used to outsource earlier too, but I used to cheap out on the people I hire.
This time, I am hiring quality writers, who don’t come cheap, but do a much better job. Which means, I save a lot of my time. I have also invested in an amazing sales automation tool which saves a further 4-5 hours a week.
I am nowhere near the 4 hour work week dream, but I think I am getting there.
Now with relativevly more time on my hands, I have been considering launching a few side projects once again.
I’m a big fan of people like Spencer Haws (NichePursuits), Jon Dykstra (FatStacksBlog), and Ron Stefanski (OneHourProfessor) who have several niche sites with them that makes money for them – either via ads or affiliate marketing.
But here is the thing – I simply do not have it in me to persist with a site for months or years at a stretch till it starts making money.
So here is what I am going to do.
I am going to launch small, niche product sites. Not micro-SaaS. Something even smaller.
Sites like BridgeURL – this is a website I launched back in 2009 or 2010 and it sees a healthy traffic even today with no marketing whatsoever.
I don’t completely recall how much money I spent on getting this website built, but the first version should have taken me like $100-$120 in all.
So these are the kind of sites I want to build.
This is my plan for this year. I am going to come up with product ideas like this and launch them in public – both here on this blog as well as on Twitter.
Unlike niche SEO-driven websites that the other people I admire work on, I am going to focus on building simple, yet viral ideas.
And because it’s not SEO driven, I don’t think I really have to hide my sites from my readers.
So, on this blog, you are going to get all the information that you need – the idea, how I go about building it, how much I build each of my sites for, how I market it, and how much I make from them.
This is kind of liberating in a way because when I don’t have to focus on SEO, I do not have to care about word length, or link building, etc. I already do enough of it in my day job. This is a passion project and I like to keep it that way.
I hope to not lose direction with my plan this time around and actually have something come off it.
I already have a couple of ideas and I hope to launch them in a few weeks. If you are interested to hear my progress, make sure you subscribe to my newsletter.
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