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What is your one-person business?

Hey everyone!

Let's get to know one another! I'm Casey, I have a newsletter called Uncovered (https://uncovered.substack.com/) where I research successful companies and extract useful information that startup and founders can use in their own businesses.

I'm not working on a SaaS product in the investing/trading arena as well.

Let's hear what you're doing below!

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    Working as one-person on join.coulf.com

    I think it'll remain one-person business. And it makes sense as it is a private community run by me, just like your newsletter.

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    Hi, I'm Hossein and I'm building Formito.com, a tool to make a conversational forms (a.k.a chatbot).

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    I m one person too and I am working on

    Tailwind CSS templates ready to customize out of the box.
    For startups & personal use.

    This is soon changing to this because is not exactly what the customer wants.

    A bi-weekly newsletter for web developers and UI/UX designers discovering new resources and articles about the latest and relevant trends.

    I

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    I am a professional development specialist, and I provide mostly consulting services (career consulting and organizational development).
    I have my newsletter (the Sabi Insight, https://thesabidot.substack.com/welcome) and I just started my community (the Tea Hut, on fb)

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    Hi @Casey, I tried to sign up to your substack but it was really tricky to sign up - instead it was more like a search function!

    So I'm Hannah and I have years of experience in media and PR. I set up www.moderndispatches.com to help founders get their first media coverage because SO many have told me how they've been ripped off by PR agencies in the past (forked out thousands and got barely any coverage).

    The main product right now is a step-by-step guide to getting media coverage. Talks you through EVERYTHING from what to say to when to call back. I hope those here find this useful - do feel free to download the guide and tell me what you think!

    Oh, and one more thing: in terms of PR, what are your top priorities? Getting media coverage? Finding guest post sites? Knowing what the best PR tools are? Building a media list/where to find contacts? Would be great to learn more!

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    Hey Casey! Would love to check out your newsletter but the link isn't working :(

    It's not quite as relevant for all IndieHackers, but I also write newsletter. I'm sharing cooking tips and fundamentals to grow your confidence in the kitchen.

    https://www.saltsearsavor.com

    It's a small newsletter, and I've hit a bit of a plateau after getting friends and family to join. I'm doing my best to promote it better now :)

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    Thanks for making this post Casey. Subscribed to your newsletter as well.

    Currently I am working as a mentor on https://codelifefitness.com/

    Writing a book on How to grow as competent developer.

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    Hey, I'm working on a fully-featured admin template using Bootstrap, Sass and Webpack. Ask me anything! https://adminkit.io/

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    Nice, I subscribed.

    I'm building a browser for developing websites on my own: Polypane

    It's a lot of work doing everything myself, but I used to own a 15 person internet agency before this and not having to worry about employees gives a tremendous amount of freedom.

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    We're both writing!

    I'm writing an eBook/eStory about how I was hired as a startup CEO, worked hard to search for product/market fit, burned 1 million funding, and recently shut down.

    I call it "How to Fail as a First-Time Founder" because I want other first-time founders to learn from my hard lessons.

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      This looks very interesting, I am feeling the heat from my first startup already.
      looking forward.

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        Glad you can potentially find this useful and avoid some of the mistakes! Look forward to sharing the coming chapters :)

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      Nice sounds really interesting

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      Apart from your issue connecting payment processing, which you shared earlier here, what problems do you face turning your project into a real business?

      Let me also tell something, the 3 steps matter but it's not all. It doesn't matter if you didn't validate your idea at first, you can validate it now and shift to the direction your feedback takes you. Is this about Connect or The Haystack?

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          You're overthinking the first part, landing pages are easy (brizy.cloud and free), put up a form it'll collect for you, why different copies? you're building many landing pages for different audiences?, why paid ads at all? you'll be just fine without them.

          "being active on related communities" - Seriously? You're a lot more active and helpful than many here, do the same in related communities.

          Choose just one project that makes you the most money, dedicate time and make it better. Even the project that didn't make any money will make some with consistent work input, it is the key. Reach out to me for any help as this thread is for something different.

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