Got paid and got no rush

[OccultKingdoms]

Hey Reaaski bro, I can't seem to understand you. I see a lot of similarities between you and me (few visits to the hairdresser, lots of takeout food, energy drinks, thinking differently from the rest, etc.), but your posts sometimes seem a bit dark to me. Whenever I've been depressed, it's almost always been about money and/or job uncertainty, but from what I gather from your comments, you're doing very well financially. What torments you so much??

Wrong assumptions. I'm only thinking hard and researching a lot.

I have no successful bank account.

I think of moving abroad due to my law / legal issues.

 

[OccultKingdoms]

Well, you can't really expect your first startup to hit big.

Like the saying goes
"Throw stuff against the wall and see which sticks"

It is just a matter of persistence. Keep at it, and something will eventually stick.

Business is an area that isn't made for people who want to give up just on the basis of
"90% of startups fail"

Shoot me a message if you ever feel like getting in to the startup scene.
I have experience in the field. A good part of my clientele are startup founders - many of whom are now multi-millionaires, and I've been a small part of that success.

I put it in my 2nd post on waste of time:

create SaaS instead of things you can use yourself,

I think it's a psychological test on your side and you check if I will be so naive to get burned again!

What you trynna do some products with langchain, openai or ctr manipulation? I saw this lately. Or maybe generate press theme wrapper to develop an agency hah...

This thing is scary! So many people died because of it! Not literally but...

In my country top product is an SEO tool called SurferSEO. What a crap. People on BHW immediately recognized it's not very useful. It's crazy complicated and also crazy useless. Lol

How many SaaS I saw which was useless... And founders came off 12 year old child level assumptions.

I'm looking forward to get mid 5 figures. By tomorrow. I will snort kilogram of CENSORED powder and voila!

 

[Ignatius_Reilly]

I'm looking forward to get mid 5 figures. By tomorrow.

What are your skills? Are you a programmer, right? Do you offer any service here on BHW? I see you have the Jr. VIP but I haven't seen any thread of yours in the marketplace, and your profile is private, so I can't view it.

If you manage to come up with a way to generate loads of traffic, for example with bots like those from lucky.sparks or something similar, I'll help you monetize everything. I still have some contacts in networks/advertisers.

 

[OccultKingdoms]

What are your skills? Are you a programmer, right? Do you offer any service here on BHW? I see you have the Jr. VIP but I haven't seen any thread of yours in the marketplace, and your profile is private, so I can't view it.

If you manage to come up with a way to generate loads of traffic, for example with bots like those from lucky.sparks or something similar, I'll help you monetize everything. I still have some contacts in networks/advertisers.

I'm busy.
This will take another year.

I'll message proper people once it's time.

Maybe never... LIFE.

Common anxiety.

 

[atif_xc]

Man, love reading your posts, you are an interesting individual

Wish you more succes in the future

i love this form, its crazy how can i get advice from high level people for free

Ps: English not my main lunguage

 

[OccultKingdoms]

Man, love reading your posts, you are an interesting individual

Wish you more succes in the future

i love this form, its crazy how can i get advice from high level people for free

Ps: English not my main lunguage

Very good. I'm happy with those ballers too.

One dude sold 10s properties...

 

[OccultKingdoms]

Well, you can't really expect your first startup to hit big.

Like the saying goes
"Throw stuff against the wall and see which sticks"

It is just a matter of persistence. Keep at it, and something will eventually stick.

Business is an area that isn't made for people who want to give up just on the basis of
"90% of startups fail"

Shoot me a message if you ever feel like getting in to the startup scene.
I have experience in the field. A good part of my clientele are startup founders - many of whom are now multi-millionaires, and I've been a small part of that success.

Sure but you know, if you start doing AI startups when you see "AI" for the first time in 2023, you're gonna just waste your time and tons of energy.

It was super hard or close to impossible to transform AI output just doing regex. I had to do langchain and do many models of AI at the same time but turned out it was outside my little budget and ability. Too much to learn. That was an expert level task and I had only couple months of experience with AI as a user.

If I was a kid and wasted time, not much of a problem. But wasting time as an adult is a painful experience.

Now, I don't want to give you any ideas here,
but that's roughly the amount of cash that most banks keep on hand.

But seriously,
why not take some time for yourself and think of a good startup idea. You have the technical knowledge to start one.

I'm sure Poland has some startup contests/grants where you can participate in seed funding.

What's good "startup idea"? I saw many people trying grants / contests and they got nowhere.

Or if they got funding, today they're removed and are back to 9-5.

They did a fundamental mistake - they followed trends like AI and put it like a little fruit on a cake but that fruit was bigger than a cake itself.

Complete moronic attitude.

People have great ideas but their execution is as bad as it can get. Usually engineers who never sold an item.

Also people have mediocre / quite bad ideas but good execution and they get some success like $1k revenue per month...

Well, you can't really expect your first startup to hit big.

Like the saying goes
"Throw stuff against the wall and see which sticks"

It is just a matter of persistence. Keep at it, and something will eventually stick.

Business is an area that isn't made for people who want to give up just on the basis of
"90% of startups fail"

Shoot me a message if you ever feel like getting in to the startup scene.
I have experience in the field. A good part of my clientele are startup founders - many of whom are now multi-millionaires, and I've been a small part of that success.

So what's your typical plan of attack and your approach to doing this type of thing?

I don't want to get involved with angel investors and other type of people as they're not nice once they see you're burning their funds.

I burned a lot of my time and money which landed me back to typical 9-5 and doing things off time.

Now I'm thinking of emigration instead of doing another SaaS or startup.

 

[Juhku]

Sure but you know, if you start doing AI startups when you see "AI" for the first time in 2023, you're gonna just waste your time and tons of energy.

It was super hard or close to impossible to transform AI output just doing regex. I had to do langchain and do many models of AI at the same time but turned out it was outside my little budget and ability. Too much to learn. That was an expert level task and I had only couple months of experience with AI as a user.

If I was a kid and wasted time, not much of a problem. But wasting time as an adult is a painful experience.


What's good "startup idea"? I saw many people trying grants / contests and they got nowhere.

Or if they got funding, today they're removed and are back to 9-5.

They did a fundamental mistake - they followed trends like AI and put it like a little fruit on a cake but that fruit was bigger than a cake itself.

Complete moronic attitude.

People have great ideas but their execution is as bad as it can get. Usually engineers who never sold an item.

Also people have mediocre / quite bad ideas but good execution and they get some success like $1k revenue per month...


So what's your typical plan of attack and your approach to doing this type of thing?

I don't want to get involved with angel investors and other type of people as they're not nice once they see you're burning their funds.

I burned a lot of my time and money which landed me back to typical 9-5 and doing things off time.

Now I'm thinking of emigration instead of doing another SaaS or startup.

First of all, 99% of AI startups are crap.
People see those big very successful AI startups and their founders getting rich almost overnight with their 'revolutionary' ideas, and want a slice of the cake.

They get inspired by those news headlines and start their own AI startups.
People have a misconception in the startup scene that slapping 'AI' into anything makes it a good product, and then fail 6 months after.

A good startup idea comes from actually solving a real problem people have. If the solving of that problem requires AI, then so be it, but don't force yourself into certain 'trends'.
A great way to think of a startup idea is to think of the problems that you have. What do you wish was a lot easier?

If you ask any successful startup founder why they came up with their idea, you would most likely hear that the idea came from personal experiences.

Definitely not going to say any names here as I don't want to dox myself to everyone here, but a very successful startup that I have good connections to, is an online platform for making renovations a lot easier.
That idea came to the founders because they wanted a renovation done and found it very hard to manage and orchestrate 5 different contractors at the same time.
So, they built a web platform for that and are now very, very successful.

Your idea has to be good and something that people actually want to use, but do you know what's far more imporant than the actual product in the first year or so in the startup scene?

Branding & marketing. That's where I come in and that's the reason why I have such good connections to people in this scene. I know how to do branding correctly.

You don't necessarily even need a good/working product in the first years, if your branding is on point.
For example, we can look at Theranos.

The problem they were solving --> very important
Their product --> absolute crap
Their branding --> the sole reason why people invested and trusted them for so long

If you don't know how to do branding yourself, hire someone to do it for you. It's not cheap nor easy, but for many startups, it's the only thing that's keeping their company alive.

Branding is a way to keep your startup alive for the first few years when you're still developing your product to a degree that's acceptable to sell, and for the period of when you're making your startup profitable (most startup aren't profitable in the first years).

 

[xReminisce]

I need 6 figures payments.

Correct, if you dont feel happy, you just dont have enough money yet

 

[OccultKingdoms]

If you don't know how to do branding yourself, hire someone to do it for you. It's not cheap nor easy, but for many startups, it's the only thing that's keeping their company alive.

Branding is a way to keep your startup alive for the first few years when you're still developing your product to a degree that's acceptable to sell, and for the period of when you're making your startup profitable (most startup aren't profitable in the first years).

So I'll buy your services when the time comes. I don't have a successful bank account for now.

I'll do something else and find an idea in my brothel as I work and work and work.

Tons of these ideas come when you solve a unique problem.

So we get rid of typical human misconception where the idea is key. I can speak openly about my niches and ideas.

What I noticed competition doesn't rise as I do this.

Correct, if you dont feel happy, you just dont have enough money yet

So why does Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk still have bad moments? Not enough money to invent an ultimate happy tool for 100% happiness at all times.

 

[Juhku]

So we get rid of typical human misconception where the idea is key. I can speak openly about my niches and ideas.

To a certain degree, yes.

when you solve a unique problem.

Doesn't necessarily have to be a unique problem that's not yet solved.

You can very much create a startup based around solving a problem that is already solved by another company, but you need to make sure that you can get an edge in competition somehow.
Better prices, more features, different target groups, or whatever, but you need to do something differently.

You need to have something that gives a good reason for people to choose your company over your competitor.
This is the reason why, for example, most web dev agencies don't get very far. They blend in with the thousands of other competitors as they don't do anything differently than most.

'Conquering' areas of business that are already existing is a very good strategy for newbies.

It's much easier for beginners with no budget to get started in pre-existing markets.
You're just trading market research for market shares.

If you're trying to solve a unique problem alone with no budget nor experience, you're destined for failure.
It's very costly and hard to research the market, and to convince people that your product is something that they really need.
People tend to be very skeptic when a startup just hops in and tries to sell them a product that no one has ever heard of, and is also telling that you can't live without it.

 

[xReminisce]

So why does Jeff Bezos or Elon Musk still have bad moments? Not enough money to invent an ultimate happy tool for 100% happiness at all times.

Cuz you cannot measure how much money each person needs and wants is the same
You can see it with Elon & Bezos competitiveness to be #1 richest in the world that they clearly dont feel like they have enough

 

[OccultKingdoms]

Doesn't necessarily have to be a unique problem that's not yet solved.

You can very much create a startup based around solving a problem that is already solved by another company, but you need to make sure that you can get an edge in competition somehow.
Better prices, more features, different target groups, or whatever, but you need to do something differently.

You need to have something that gives a good reason for people to choose your company over your competitor.
This is the reason why, for example, most web dev agencies don't get very far. They blend in with the thousands of other competitors as they don't do anything differently than most.

'Conquering' areas of business that are already existing is a very good strategy for newbies.

It's much easier for beginners with no budget to get started in pre-existing markets.
You're just trading market research for market shares.

If you're trying to solve a unique problem alone with no budget nor experience, you're destined for failure.
It's very costly and hard to research the market, and to convince people that your product is something that they really need.
People tend to be very skeptic when a startup just hops in and tries to sell them a product that no one has ever heard of, and is also telling that you can't live without it.

Business is a not a copy-cat thing. It's a thoughtful, years or decades long operation.

Edit: you wrote a summary of books I had read. Unfortunately reading won't get me there. I have some advantage over a blind man who can't read though...
Edit2: maybe there are people out there who are blind and successful.

 

[OccultKingdoms]

If you're trying to solve a unique problem alone with no budget nor experience, you're destined for failure.
It's very costly and hard to research the market, and to convince people that your product is something that they really need.
People tend to be very skeptic when a startup just hops in and tries to sell them a product that no one has ever heard of, and is also telling that you can't live without it.

Nothing hard as I already know what affiliate marketers struggle with as I am an affiliate marketer. So I would provide for them.

It only takes $30 usd to push bs products for affiliates on BHW if you're a jr vip. Plus months of research and translating it into practice and products. Which leads me back to thinking that affiliate marketing itself is better. But I don't know...

What is the point of transforming everything into software with UI? It's a stupid trend that people like me follow off hype created by gurus and marketing agencies. No more hype!

They came to my thread where I cry about this offering their ultimate biz solution to fix it all. What the hell is going on here! Stop it!

I won't let y'all burn me again. Haha. Free millions off startups. And 6 dead projects that never came to fruition and made nothing beyond MVP. They weren't mine but that just shows how good business model that is. Waste of my time.

 

[Salamouna]

how much are we talking about here

 

[OccultKingdoms]

how much are we talking about here

$50 per day.

It doesn't matter as it's white hat money so it's kinda easy to get to $150 per day in matter of a year or two.

$50 black hat usd are better than $500 white hat usds. The feelings... I think they won't happen though as I'm not 16 anymore.

But if you focus on black hat too hard, you're gonna go down to zero. Simply because there will be no way to bounce back if black hat trick fails

Being 85 kg I can't afford doing $5 per day amymore. I wish I could get by on that money again..

When I had $50 back then it would be party non stop. Today? Barely can afford food...

Will I have to emigrate permanently soon as victim of oppression or not? We will see.

 

[indianmojojojo]

I have a slightly different concept.

Am not saying to spend reckless however I would recommend slowly start indulging in things, and buy things as an incentive. As only when you indulge, the fire to make more money and work stays alive. I watched a Dan Pena video last year, he talks about how going to a car showroom and smelling the seats in Lambo would give you the urge to work more to buy that. Which is in a way true.

Last year I wanted to retire, I tried to retire for a couple of months. I felt the void inside and came back to work again. Now I definitely don't want to retire till I die. I want to keep feeding my brain with something to do productive.

On the contrary my yonger brother is retired and I can definitely see he has no fire left in him. He is definitely not zen either. He just sits around playing his guitar, PC games or goes on long drives.

So spend money, and give yourself the pressure to make more.

Just my 2 cent

 

[OccultKingdoms]

I have a slightly different concept.

Am not saying to spend reckless however I would recommend slowly start indulging in things, and buy things as an incentive. As only when you indulge, the fire to make more money and work stays alive. I watched a Dan Pena video last year, he talks about how going to a car showroom and smelling the seats in Lambo would give you the urge to work more to buy that. Which is in a way true.

Last year I wanted to retire, I tried to retire for a couple of months. I felt the void inside and came back to work again. Now I definitely don't want to retire till I die. I want to keep feeding my brain with something to do productive.

On the contrary my yonger brother is retired and I can definitely see he has no fire left in him. He is definitely not zen either. He just sits around playing his guitar, PC games or goes on long drives.

So spend money, and give yourself the pressure to make more.

Just my 2 cent

He could be a scientist or do some sports. Plus meet some cool ppl.

I would do this if I had too much money.

 

[Salamouna]

Being 85 kg I can't afford doing $5 per day amymore

What about the eight
because I can't tell just from the kg

 

[OccultKingdoms]

What about the eight
because I can't tell just from the kg

181 cm

3500 kcal moving a lot