mindeswx
Regular Member
- Dec 5, 2016
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Entering my late 20s being broke and even worse - in debt.
How did I get here?
Started hustling online when I was about 19 , did many things as everyone just starting out, SEO , CPA, affiliate,youtube all that being blackhat. Never had much luck with it.
Not until Instagram spamming/client management started gaining momentum, and boy was I grinding hard.
I was (proudly) one of the first people ever to start selling 4G proxies
The first setup was done in my basement, using these strange USB extenders and 3G modems.
Demand was huge, and everyone was making money at that point, so naturally we were expanding..
Spending a fair amount of money on new hardware, developing new setups, and hiring the right kind of people...
The cycle continued, more orders, solving new issues, more hardware, more stress, sleeping at the office at this point.
Fast forward a few months, we are expanding to Ukraine with a new setup (by saying we I mean it's still me and my wife at that point, but more about that later)
Setting everything up in Ukraine turned out to be stressful as fuck, abusing modafinil daily didn't help much either.
Traveling back and forth to Ukraine to deploy new batches of modems, while setting up a "business", doing taxes and stuff.
Keep in mind, at this point only 'employees' at this moment is one Ukrainian dude who basically just has to live in a rented apartment and a friend of mine who does the majority of the work with the servers remotely.
Advantages of hustling 24/7? Well, you get to drive nice cars, fuck Ukrainian prostitutes, and do drugs ( preferably all 3 same time
)
Fast forward 6 months or so, Instagram starts getting more strict, client growth stops, nothing to worry about, right. Right?
Fast forward 6 months 70% of clients are going bankrupt because they can no longer grow their client's accounts, stuff in Ukraine is being paid for from the savings.
Still trying to work with affiliates to gain more clients from different niches, hoping for TikTok automation to resurrect the proxy business, start doing more M~DM~A than moda.
Clients start refunding payments that are almost 1 year old, fuck Paypal for this.
fast forward 6 months, there's not much hope left realistically, investing money left and right.
A few months pass, nothing seems to work. Joined stm, got some motivation, and created a thread called something like "Watch me make it or go insane",
and boy did I...
2 most fucking intense months in my life. I had a couch in the office like 2 meters away from the computer.
My daily routine was something like this
- Wake up
- drugs
- 20-30h just grinding paid ads.
- repeat
Lost well over 10k$ in the process and most certainly my sanity...
Memories are kind of blurry from that time, but my wife (which was still supporting this kind of lifestyle, not the drugs part ofc) found out about the Ukrainian prostitutes, so yeah, that's was over.
Decided it's time to sell the hardware, got in touch with my Ukrainian guy to arrange my arrival, turns out he sold all of it for pennies already.
Fuck more prostitutes, do more drugs, go partying, crash my car, all that to forget about the situation I was in.
Started a project with a couple of friends, finally started to make some money again.
That wasn't enough now since my friends also liked to party, so we spent most of the money on drugs.
Didn't have enough money to pay for the office, let some friends in to do their business there, leaving my stuff there.
Shit got stolen, by so-called friends.
Long story short - I had to move to my parents house
That felt like the worst fucking thing.
Wanted to get my shit together as fast as possible.
Quit doing drugs.
Started an Etsy store (selling digital designs), got a designer , started doing some automation to get traffic, first month was pretty hard, earnings were low.
The second month it picked up and started seeing 100$/day profits.
The shop got banned due to copyright claims.
Seeing that it can be profitable another shop was created on my friends name.
Started slowly, made sure the designs were very unique.
Created scripts to scrape best-selling designs, upload them for the designer and upload them to etsy once that was done.
Everything was going slow but steady. Got banned after about 2 months again.
Realizing that I'm again at 0$/month
Do some drugs.
Fuck this shit.
Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine. - Jack Ma
I understand that this post turned out to be a fucking biography of my failures, but I'm not looking for compassion, it just feels good to talk about it.
I'm sure there are some people reading who is/was in a similar situation, virtual degenerate fist bump!
I'm not going to set any goals, all I want is to be busy with work again.
Projects at the momentMeet with a friend that has a live streaming/video creation business, get some hardware from him, start going to record basketball matches a few times a week to earn some money. - 400e/month
Figured out mobile proxies are a thing now, there's much more competition, but there's demand as well, got some hardware from the basement, called up my network ninja buddy, and in two weeks we had fully working private modems solution with API and all that cool stuff, working on the user panel now. -
Clients - 3
500e/month
Start growing Etsy seller's Facebook group by spamming Etsy.
Captcha and proxy expenses 20$
Scrape facebook events to get leads for video production gigs, upload them up Hubspot, get ready for cold calling.
Cold calls - 0
Set up shopify/woocommerce to sell digital designs
- nothing is done yet.
How did I get here?
Started hustling online when I was about 19 , did many things as everyone just starting out, SEO , CPA, affiliate,youtube all that being blackhat. Never had much luck with it.
Not until Instagram spamming/client management started gaining momentum, and boy was I grinding hard.
I was (proudly) one of the first people ever to start selling 4G proxies
The first setup was done in my basement, using these strange USB extenders and 3G modems.
Demand was huge, and everyone was making money at that point, so naturally we were expanding..
Spending a fair amount of money on new hardware, developing new setups, and hiring the right kind of people...
The cycle continued, more orders, solving new issues, more hardware, more stress, sleeping at the office at this point.
Fast forward a few months, we are expanding to Ukraine with a new setup (by saying we I mean it's still me and my wife at that point, but more about that later)
Setting everything up in Ukraine turned out to be stressful as fuck, abusing modafinil daily didn't help much either.
Traveling back and forth to Ukraine to deploy new batches of modems, while setting up a "business", doing taxes and stuff.
Keep in mind, at this point only 'employees' at this moment is one Ukrainian dude who basically just has to live in a rented apartment and a friend of mine who does the majority of the work with the servers remotely.
Advantages of hustling 24/7? Well, you get to drive nice cars, fuck Ukrainian prostitutes, and do drugs ( preferably all 3 same time
)Fast forward 6 months or so, Instagram starts getting more strict, client growth stops, nothing to worry about, right. Right?
Fast forward 6 months 70% of clients are going bankrupt because they can no longer grow their client's accounts, stuff in Ukraine is being paid for from the savings.
Still trying to work with affiliates to gain more clients from different niches, hoping for TikTok automation to resurrect the proxy business, start doing more M~DM~A than moda.
Clients start refunding payments that are almost 1 year old, fuck Paypal for this.
fast forward 6 months, there's not much hope left realistically, investing money left and right.
A few months pass, nothing seems to work. Joined stm, got some motivation, and created a thread called something like "Watch me make it or go insane",
and boy did I...
2 most fucking intense months in my life. I had a couch in the office like 2 meters away from the computer.
My daily routine was something like this
- Wake up
- drugs
- 20-30h just grinding paid ads.
- repeat
Lost well over 10k$ in the process and most certainly my sanity...
Memories are kind of blurry from that time, but my wife (which was still supporting this kind of lifestyle, not the drugs part ofc) found out about the Ukrainian prostitutes, so yeah, that's was over.
Decided it's time to sell the hardware, got in touch with my Ukrainian guy to arrange my arrival, turns out he sold all of it for pennies already.
Fuck more prostitutes, do more drugs, go partying, crash my car, all that to forget about the situation I was in.
Started a project with a couple of friends, finally started to make some money again.
That wasn't enough now since my friends also liked to party, so we spent most of the money on drugs.
Didn't have enough money to pay for the office, let some friends in to do their business there, leaving my stuff there.
Shit got stolen, by so-called friends.
Long story short - I had to move to my parents house
That felt like the worst fucking thing.
Wanted to get my shit together as fast as possible.
Quit doing drugs.
Started an Etsy store (selling digital designs), got a designer , started doing some automation to get traffic, first month was pretty hard, earnings were low.
The second month it picked up and started seeing 100$/day profits.
The shop got banned due to copyright claims.
Seeing that it can be profitable another shop was created on my friends name.
Started slowly, made sure the designs were very unique.
Created scripts to scrape best-selling designs, upload them for the designer and upload them to etsy once that was done.
Everything was going slow but steady. Got banned after about 2 months again.
Realizing that I'm again at 0$/month
Do some drugs.
Fuck this shit.
Today is hard, tomorrow will be worse, but the day after tomorrow will be sunshine. - Jack Ma
I understand that this post turned out to be a fucking biography of my failures, but I'm not looking for compassion, it just feels good to talk about it.
I'm sure there are some people reading who is/was in a similar situation, virtual degenerate fist bump!
I'm not going to set any goals, all I want is to be busy with work again.
Projects at the moment
Figured out mobile proxies are a thing now, there's much more competition, but there's demand as well, got some hardware from the basement, called up my network ninja buddy, and in two weeks we had fully working private modems solution with API and all that cool stuff, working on the user panel now. -
Clients - 3
500e/month
Start growing Etsy seller's Facebook group by spamming Etsy.
Captcha and proxy expenses 20$
Scrape facebook events to get leads for video production gigs, upload them up Hubspot, get ready for cold calling.
Cold calls - 0
Set up shopify/woocommerce to sell digital designs
- nothing is done yet.
