Artem Smirnov

Startab is Google Analytics (or Stripe or whatever else I'll support in the future) in your Google Chrome New Tab. It's my first side project to my main side project, flyent.

I have been studying market and have came up with a few ideas. I tried testing a couple of them which got nowhere. Reading stories of founders who made 10k-25k MRR, it seems that most of these people were working on something similar in consulting roles or they had in-depth knowledge of industries(sales/marketing founders). How do I, as a low key backend engineer, who has mostly worked at mega corps come up with idea that can make at least 25k MRR? As some of you might have witnessed, engineering remains far removed from business. Second part is, where do I find people who are going to pay for my app? Cold call or cold emails have very low conversion rates from my observation. What is it that your company would pay $200 a year?

I'm writing an article on how a solid daily routine helps get more productive and brings more focus to what really matters. I know what works best for me (my daily yoga and meditation, tea breaks on my balcony since I work from home, block focus time in my calendar for the important tasks to complete, put my phone on mute during certain tasks, etc), but I'd love to get more perspective and ideas from other busy people. Thanks for sharing your tips! ***Edit*** Thanks peeps for sharing your ideas! For those interested, here's the article I wrote: https://bit.ly/3gsvTQx