Get Revenue Now w/ These Tools
Are you struggling to get revenue?
Make a sale? Sell a product?
Use Gumroad to set up a payment portal.
You can embed it or give a link inline. Anything you can put in a pdf, you can sell on Gumroad. Anything you can link to, you can sell on Gumroad. Even take monthly payments.
BuyMeACoffee
Put a google sheet or an airtable behind a coffeelink also via BuyMeAcoffee
Sell your time on SuperPeer, MentorPass
See if you can even charge $15 an hour for coaching.
Link to your paypal.me
Put your paypal name at the end and set a price. Make sure you have notifications on and can deliver the product, or service in a timely manner.
I've known people to use a paypal.me link to get donations.
Get sponsors from Paved, ThoughtLeaders, Letterwell.
This revenue stream is perfect if you have an audience you don't want to charge.
Even if you get a sponsor for $50, it proves businesses want your audience. Now you just need to get more audience.
Full Disclosure: I run HypeLetter.com and I'll find you a sponsor or two if you want to go that route.
Make an Account on Fiverr or Upwork
Use Fiverr or Upwork to test if anyone will pay for your funky service. Every day people are searching to hire help there. They actively search out people who can do it.
You can even do the work, using your tool you built (if you built a tool). Then after you finish the work, recommend they use the tool instead of you.
Mail Cash
Ask your users to mail you cash in return for a service you provide. It's rough but it works.
A bit slower and most likely not conducive to a smooth transaction. But if your users do this, they want what you're selling.
Don't wait.
It'll only get worse. That feeling keeps growing ... "oh will anyone buy this?"
Find out if someone will pay, asap.
If you get 10 customers. Don't Stop.
Comment with a link below here.
I'll check it out and see what I can do to help.
Use privjs.com to sell nodejs packages
very nice tool!
Thanks! I just launched the MVP yesterday.
Did you build it for yourself to sell npm packages? I've never heard of this. Perhaps now that you have the tool deliver them. Make a marketplace to list and discover packages.
Yeah, that's in the roadmap. I came up with this idea when I wanted to sell my React Design system as a npm package, but couldn't find any platform to sell. So, built PrivJs to satisfy the same.
How does it work? Is it a private repo users have to add? Didn't see it on the site.
Um yeah. I'm sorry I don't have a very detailed landing page yet. The process is simple:
step 1: You publish your package to privjs
step 2: You provide access to your customers via dashboard or via privjs api.
Only the users that you provide access to would be able to
npm installthe package.Thanks for this amazing post. I got to learn about a lot of ways to monetize.
Great list! I've been using Gumroad for Zlides and Ko-fi (a Buymeacoffee alternative) for my recent side project, great experience so far!
Sell or crowdfund your writing on uncomma.com. Here is an example project if you want to see what the project page looks like.
Just launching my MVP, so would love to work with some indie hackers and get them some revenue :D
Great post @AndrewKamphey. Getting off the mark is the most important thing. Getting feedback and seeing if customers actually want what you are offering is key before spending large amounts of time and resources on building something that ultimately people won't want.
I just launched this MVP yesterday https://jobboardplugin.com/
Not sure if I can monetize.
Don't want to be mean but what a messy post, man. Is this just unedited stream of conciousness? Could you have used bullet points and headlines?
Yes I could have. I just fixed it. is it better?
Much. Thank you.
Selling a simple a way to create production ready ML pipelines but little traction so far. What are we doing wrong? https://maiot.io
I clicked on the beta and noticed you give away free credits. You should post that EVERYWHERE. Everyone wants free money!
€150 FREE CREDITS
Also, @billybicket could help you with the landing page. He helped me with mine on another project.
He singled out when I used the world "Simply"
similar to your use here: Simple to configure, run and evaluate
Thanks Andrew! I'll consider the highlighting more. For the word simply: could you clarify what you mean? Is it wrong to put it there or good
Yes, I can clarify a bit. Billy said it better on a zoom call. Pardon if I'm off or if he jumps in here and says it better.
The word simple doesn't actually say how you help. It doesn't give the user or reader any information.
your second line is much more illustrative of what it's doing. I wrote 30 lines and you'll compute millions of datapoints. cool. This is what ML is supposed to be like :)
The header actually obscures away this 2nd line.
The last part is a long sentence and could be: Train models without Learning Tensorflow. (wow cool. okay I'm in.)
Copy/ paste your landing page into http://www.hemingwayapp.com/
That could help show you where you lose some ppl.
Wow great observation again. Your feedback has inspired me! Revamping the landing as wel speak. Thanks Andrew!
You mean putting up a gig that essentialy offers my service or the thing my product solves? Or trying to sell my service/products to the gig guys already there?
Yes, off your service to see if ppl are searching for it and hiring.
If you offer a tool that helps SEO. get hired doing SEO. use your tool to fulfill the service then tell your hirer that they can get the service for cheaper with your tool.
It's curious, I was contemplating going back to Gumroad to accept payments on the Colors & Fonts newsletter
I was sceptical, but maybe is a good way to do it..?
It's a pretty great platform for selling. Lots of ppl are used to it now.
I might have to start using it..
I make book summaries that you can't forget.
I sell them here - https://gumroad.com/l/bSfvf
How goes it?
Your copy reads on very long to get to the point. I'd add at the top on your gumroad page what you do. send 3 books... weekly?
You're right Andrew. Thanks for the feedback & push.
I cut out the content & made it better (?) :)
Also, do you have any suggestion for newsletter where sponsorship of this project makes sense? Do the publishers be interested in affiliate opportunities?
I like the idea of sponsoring a newsletter. Do you know how will I go into finding a newsletter about project management to send info about my project and how much will something like this cost? Thank you!
Hey Esteban,
I send a newsletter for web developers and digital designers every Sunday, and I am looking for sponsors.
You can read here a bout it.
Right the newsletter is up to 770 subscribers and the website has from 300 to 500 users daily.
If you are interested you can DM on Twitter
Newsletter
Hope it helps !
cool! what is your open rate?
Hey Esteban,
It's 30.4%.
The last campaign had 43% open rate and 13.5% click-through, then the resent 20% open rate and 5.8% click-through.
Yes absolutely you can find newsletter about the subject.
Or you could also find newsletters that are read by people who also need your product. In this case project management. They are usually managers or devs? senior devs?
I can ask a few newsletters once I get more info.
For instance:
VueJSDevelopers.com is my co-founders newsletter and caters to developers.
Maker Mind by @anthilemoon caters to makers/founders and could potentially be the right fit.
Some search sites:
https://substack.com/discover/developers
letterwell.co
Quick Q, what's the average price of sponsoring a newsletter via HypeLetter?
I don't have a massive budget but I do recognize it's a valuable marketing channel.
Would you be interested in sponsoring {Product Disrupt Newsletter}(https://productdisrupt.com/newsletter.html)? I can also provide you a discount as a fellow indie hacker.
No exact average. We can work with you at almost any budget. Its mostly about finding the right fit. Some newsletters are only working with products or services they can use and stand behind.
A package deal ia definitely going to lower the average rate.
Cool, thanks. I've set a follow up for myself. I have a bunch of sticks in the fire and I don't want to over commit so I'll get back to you in a week or two.
Also to give you some real numbers:
I'd say any newsletter worth it to sponsor is going to start at $50 an edition.
At anywhere between $20 and $80 CPM.
You may get in front of 1k-2k subs w/ 40%- 60% open rate. So around 1,000 views.
But one and done is probably not going to get direct results right away.
I'd recommend spending at least $300 to $900 to start and test with across 3-4 newsletters of similar audiences, or try a couple of tactics.
Every newsletter writer is different and some like to write their own ads. Some like to use the product a bit. Some like to just copy/paste and see how it goes.
Happy to help, email me directly: andrew@hypeletter.com
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