/biz/ - Business & Finance

>>50027801
Are you me OP? I decided to go into digital marketing, adtech and e-commerce instead.

>>50027801
Suck x dicks for y monies

>>50027801
Jim Carry is only crying because he's angry that he feels nothing at a funeral. Absolute psycho.

>>50027801
>every unfinished software project is "90% ready".

>>50027814
I should mention that I run my own marketing agency that I consult other e-commerce businesses through and run my own e-commerce business (I actually sell real products that I've designed, have sourced and have have made here in America, no Chinese plastic garbage) and also drive and convert traffic as an affiliate marketer which doubles up as reconnaissance and feedback on how I can implement strategies for myself and the business I consult. I make 10x more money than any senior dev code monkey I worked under with 10x less stress. "muh startup path" has been glamorized and gassed up to be something it isn't. Been there done that.

>>50027801
I'm about 90% right now too, but gave up due to depression.

I've only made $50.43 from it so far. Is this a win? I don't know it is better than nothing huh, I could have never imagined myself making money for myself. that barely pays for server bills. I'm at the point where I need to scale pretty massively in order to have a chance with it. My goal would be like 3K per month. But recession is probably here and might kill my dream of making it.

I can feel OPs photo. My fathers funeral felt like an out of body experience. Youve always realized humans are mortal, but it's something else entirely to know the death of your father. Going to the funeral felt unreal, like I was going to some high school band concert I didn't want to play in. Met with all of my dad's friends, some guys I hadn't seen in close to 2 decades. I didn't even know my dad was that close to so many people. Of course I drank myself retarded afterward and made an ass out of myself. Mostly due to realizing everything my mother told me about my father (they divorced when I was 12) was an absolute lie. She made me hate my father for most of my childhood. A month before he died from a terrible liver cancer caused by exposure to agent Orange in his time in Vietnam, a man that stood at 6'5" reduced to 130lbs, I got to tell him I wish I grew up living with him instead. It's been a few years since his passing, but it never really does get easier thinking about it, so mostly I don't. The dreams I have of him being alive leave me in tears waking up though. The best archive I have now is my Google chat history with him. We used to send messages to each other every day. I just wish he could've see his grandkids grow up. When I think if his life I'm amazed at how far I'm through mine.
Either way, my point is life is short. Stop wasting it on bullshit. Find a goal and achieve it.

>>50027801
It's because you know the remaining 10% will actually require 95% of the talent and work, plus you're unsure you can even get people interested even if the product worked.

>>50028358
You're a good man. You'll make it.

>>50028031
how do you market these trinkets? Also, would the strategies translate easily over to OnlyFans? The escorts I fuck are asking me to manage their accounts and are willing to pay pretty good money lmao

>>50028358
Having your parents, people who seemed invincible as a child, wither away and eventually die as you age is really heartbreaking. Life's a bitch.

>>50027963
Nobody's perfect
>>50028358
anyone who can stand strong at their father's funeral is gmi
>>50028402
you're right, I'd be much less distracted if I was 100% certain there is a pot of gold at the end

>>50027801
<opens the coffin
Do NOT go in there!
Phew!!

>>50027801
>startup
>with the fed raising rates every month
isn't a small start-up company which depends on VC funding to survive a horrible idea right now?

>>50027801
>Man goes to doctor. Says he's depressed. Says life seems harsh and cruel. Says he feels all alone in a threatening world where what lies ahead is vague and uncertain. Doctor says, "Treatment is simple. Great clown Pagliacci is in town tonight. Go and see him. That should pick you up." Man bursts into tears. Says, "But doctor...I am Pagliacci.”

>>50028714
I wasn't planning on taking VC capital, my project no large up-front investment and should be profitable from the start

>>50027963
Lol what do you even know?! You're wasting board space

>>50028358
You're good, m80. I'm sure your old man is proud of you and is looking over his grandchildren :)

>>50028716
Thanks for the laugh anon.

>>50027801
I finished my coding project I thought was a billion dollar idea, did some advertising but turns out nobody wants to use it lol. But I used the project/experience to get a job in software dev. Just put the project on your linkedin as if it were a job and tell recruiters you worked on projects to hone your dev skills. Got me a job within 2 weeks. Interviewing is a numbers game and I was talking to at least 5 recruiters a day. I had no previous professional experience, just projects

>>50028779
i thought it was funny

>>50028004
facts

>>50029282
No better way to get experience than projects for newcomers to coding. And if you're lacking for ideas, just pick your favorite open source project and contribute in whatever way you can. With crypto and blockchain there's now an avalanche of projects looking for volunteer coders.

>>50029282
That sounds pretty bad ass anon.

>>50028480
Existence is a curse. All of humans of all time have to suffer seeing their parents die. Or if they're unlucky, their parents see their kid die early! Life's a bitch and then you die. DESU I can't wait to experience it (or experience is lack of anything if there is no afterlife).

>>50027801
>>50027801
>>50027801
Keep at it. You'll regret not finishing.
Plus money isn't everything

>>50029282
I already make plenty of money, I was a codemonkey 5 years ago, no interest in doing it again. I want to get to the next level, beyond wagecuck salary.

>>50029554
money isn't everything which is exactly why working on something you have 0 interest or enthusiasm for is pretty dumb. i did it for a long while. i succeeded in the end and made a lot of money but it's still dumb and i'd undo it. money you earn out of something you had to force yourself to work on is not deserved, your personality is not ready for it

>>50027814
I do adtech for a big corporation. It's a fucking shitshow.
Looking to transfer my big data knowledge to fintech.

>>50028031
How do you make a product in America? Seems impossible

>>50027801

I started and abandoned 20 projects over the years. Quit smoking weed 4 years ago and finished 2. First one made 250k, second one made 1.5m. Don’t give up

>>50027801
same here, was actually going really well, but a few weeks ago I made an insane profit trading Russell 2000 put options and now I am just watching & playing online chess most of the day, trying to up my elo rating. Even so I spent countless hours on the database and the frontend UI, for some reason part of me just doesn't give a shit anymore.

>>50029746
How?

What’s your startup idea OP? No one on this board will be capable of producing the same thing and putting it out there before you, and if they are, you’re going to get crushed by competition once you launch anyways. Or at least, what market problem are you tackling?

>>50029746
That's awesome. But please keep on making projects. Why give up on your art just because you're rich now.. we are in desperate need for good ideas/projects out there.

>>50028358
Jesus, what a tale, best of luck

>>50028779
Why are you simping for that nigger?

>>50029746
smell like LARP

>>50030114
I'm not telling but the autistic idiots on /biz/ are the original target market, but like 99% of software I'd probably settle into a b2b niche after a while

Just be a mission driven company and declare "mission accomplished"

>>50027963
based perspective

>>50031681
Hah good enough, just wanted to get a vague idea of what you’re going for. Best of luck in case you do end up releasing

>>50028358
>Either way, my point is life is short. Stop wasting it on bullshit. Find a goal and achieve it.
I'll do it for me. I'll do it for him. I'll do it for us.

>>50030226
I'm not simping. I'm just addressing ignorance and prejudice.

>>50032965
>Hah good enough, just wanted to get a vague idea of what you’re going for. Best of luck in case you do end up releasing
thank you anon, these kind words inspire me to push through the depression

>>50028031
>made here in America
Now I know you're larping

>>50027801
I'll buy the whole project from you right now (code and all) for $300.

>>50035672
no

If someone asks me to be a pallbearer, Im not even gonna show up to the funeral

>>50027801
Remember when moot thought he was a developer after copy pasting the 2ch code at 14 years old and tried shilling his stupid canv.as idea
LOL

>>50036266
I completely forgot about canv.as. Actually played around with it at launch. It wasn't completely terrible, just so mediocre as a meme platform that it was doomed to failure.

Also, hi moot

>>50028358
This.
You are a god anon, I wish you a nice life now.
Stay strong.

>>50028358
>1ptbid
Suck it up faggot

>>50027801
Hey look! It's brown eyed Biden without his makeup on.

>>50027801
>>50027814
There's thousands of good apps and platforms and websites out there with no use. If you aren't getting special treatment from msm it's really a tough road. You need to be absolutely sure that is how you want to make a living or you will lack the commitment to break through.

>>50037730
>0pbtid

>>50028600
you are perfect or you are not me

>>50027963
I always felt that everyone has better reasons to cry than me, I mean, now I only cry because my lovelace bags are dying, but I always compare myself to others in this regard, every day I feel like a stone.

>>50027801
>losing interest 50% into completion of my game, but have to power through or waste all time I've invested
I just want to be rich

>>50028358
godspeed anon

>>50028358
My big brother died a few months ago and it is very sad for me, I have those same dreams. I miss him.

>>50042547
>safe and effective

>>50028031
literally me. I test ideas with ecom affiliate products -> if it works I launch a store around it. Easy 20% extra margin + building customer database. I did 8 figures as an affiliate and can't believe how much profit I gave away by not running my own stuff instead

post your idea
nobody will steal it and bizbros might help you

stealing an idea doesnt work
its the person behind it that matters

>>50043748
no, I don't need help from /biz/

>>50027801
He gave that casket herpes.

>>50041332
sounds like you're depersonalized or neurochemically imbalanced, talking it out will make the emotions surface sometimes

I'm nearly 4 years into a tech startup as employee #1 and lead dev (after 10 years of non startup experience)

In that time I've learned that my idea of just building out the tech and the rest would happen on it's own is completely misguided. It's taken so much work to pitch it, to capture a market, to build b2b relationships, to figure out how the b2b2c relationship even works, to operate the customer service side, to pivot, to build new products, to grow the team, to pitch it all again 18 months later, to optimise ppc, to write content to become an authority, to raise a 3rd round 18 months after the last, to go to industry events to grow our network, to go through due diligence for investors, regulators and partners, to building those partnerships in the first place.

All of that is work done by everyone else in the company who isn't me (and I'm probably ignorant of a lot more that goes on without my involvement). If it was just my contribution we'd have a bunch of tools that don't have product market fit and no users and no revenue.

I'm glad I've got this experience now, I won't be making the mistake of trying to start my own startup in the future without a non-technical co-founder. You need someone who's got the gift of the gab, a good network, and at least some know-how of how fundraising and VC works.

tl;dr "build it and they will come" probably doesn't apply to your idea devbros

>>50027801
B U R N O U T
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7-rpBB6O_Io

Go make comments on every function so that when you come back you aren't deciphering hieroglyphics and take a month off.

>>50028462
NSFW subreddits are hot rn