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Lessons and Regrets from My $25000 Launch

swyx on July 03, 2020

ICYMI, I launched my first book yesterday! So now for what has become tradition - passing on lessons and regrets from new maker to aspiring makers!...

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Stephanie Eckles • Jul 3 '20

Thanks for your transparency about your journey, I’m feeling inspired to supplement my “Buy Me a Coffee” with an ebook! I’m also reading The Developer’s Guide to Book Publishing which I recommend for anyone interested in self publishing!

swyx • Jul 3 '20

Stephanie is certainly an authority on how to do these things! havent had the chance to read it yet but i got her previous book and it was great1

Dennis O'Keeffe • Jul 3 '20

What a rollercoaster read! So good though, I read the title as if you had lost $25k and these were going to be the lessons!

Those rules of show for HackerNews is something I never knew about. Good to know.

I thought it was from too many flags from people who didn't like that I was light on experience.

Also very surprised you were thinking this?

Nice work again - very inspirational stuff.

swyx • Jul 3 '20

if you see the HN thread, you'll see that people were saying i was not qualified to write the book that I wrote. 🤷‍♂️ i dont take it personally.

thanks!

AlbertoM • Jul 4 '20

Congrats, what an awesome launch. I wish I had know all this when I launched my book (github.com/AlbertoMontalesi/The-co... ). Awesome of you for donating to FCC, as someone who learned how to code there, they really deserve it.

swyx • Jul 4 '20

thank you! how did your book launch go, did you write it up? id love to read that.

AlbertoM • Jul 5 '20

Nah, i didn't. I wrote the first edition 3 years ago, I simply posted it on reddit/facebook and 'hoped' for the best. I didn't have a proper strategy as the one you wrote in your article.