A year ago, the pandemic started and I took the first BIG (independent) leap to follow something bigger than the status quo - start my entrepreneurial journey.
I had just finished college and it was either university or apprenticeship; nothing else was an option because society doesn’t push it.
Fast forward year:
I’ve very recently got into the SaaS/Startup world after exiting the marketing space which didn’t really align with me.
I’ve adopted the lean startup methodology and testing different ideas and businesses (2 so far).
Being a non-technical founder, I’ve found that It’s very hard to bootstrap a project that requires coding and development.
On the side, I’ve decided to go back to my high-school days and get creative.
I decided to create IOS 14 Icon packs and sell them in order to fund my startup businesses.
FYI You can see them here (Shameless plug, but I’m using Gumroad to sell them): https://fromo.gumroad.com/l/3packicons
I wanted to make this post to get some idea of how to most effectively sell these low ticket products such as icons (without paid marketing preferably) in order to fund my startup ideas.
Everything generated from these digital products will go to funding my startup ideas.
I’d love to connect with others also doing similar things and share some tips and insights.
Any feedback and ideas mean a lot.
Thanks
First of all congratulations on making the leap, I'm sure it wasn't an easy decision.
What you're doing is def a good way, generating some passive income from a one-time effort job.
I would also recommend you start looking into No Code tools which would allow you to build your product yourself (or at least an MVP) without investing in developers who could get very expensive very fast.
My favorite No Code tool is Bubble.io, it would take you a couple of months to get going. We built a free bubble school (school.anachrontech.com). Check it out if you think it could be helpful.
Learning Bubble can also help you generate some revenue on the side by taking 3rd party projects.