I Quit My Job Today

I’ve been waiting for this day for a long time it seems. I had thought of all kinds of scenarios for how I might do it and what I might say but nothing prepared me for what actually happened today. I’m still in a bit of shock and I haven’t processed everything yet but it’s starting [...]

Tomorrow is the Day

I’m quitting my job. Yep, tomorrow is the day that I give notice at my day job. I’m blogging about it to have a written record of the whole thing because it’s such a major event for me. I’ve worked at my job for a long time — just over nine years. I can’t say [...]

Increase in Revenue and Possible Move

The first couple of months of 2011 have been nuts. Lots going on but not so much going on with Bidsketch — sort of. I say sort of, because Jan 18, 37signals blogged about my Highrise integration and tweeted a link to the blog post. This resulted in a small increase in traffic that day [...]

Launch a Product While Working Full Time

This is part two of a post on making 1k/month while working nights and weekends for a year. This is based off a Hacker News thread that was started a while back. My previous post mostly covered why many of the suggestions were so bad. This one will talk about what it takes to survive [...]

Quickly Build Something That Earns You 1k Every Month

A few days ago I came across a Hacker News post that asked the following: Can I build something within that 1 year which starts giving me $1000 profit every month? An important constraint here was that this was strictly a nights and weekends project because he has a full time job. The answer of [...]