$10k plan
jasonleow • 16 Feb 2024 •
It’s all nice and good to make bold declarations and stake claims like “I want $10k monthly revenue”.
It’s another to make plans and execute on them.
I’m not just saying it to get some clicks. I truly felt it, meant it, want it.
So here’s how:
Broadly:
- Keep growing existing products
- Keep launching new products
- Rinse, repeat until I get a hit product that does $10k/m, or combined revenue of all products is $10k.
Specifically:
Keep growing existing products –
- Carrd plugins: Continue to launch 1 Carrd plugin per month, contribute actively to Carrd communities
- Lists Kit: Find 1-2 distribution channels, and set in place a regular marketing cycle and workflow like I do for Carrd plugins. Build 12 directories in 12 months.
- Lifelog: Continue building new features on weekends as part of Side Project Weekends.
Keep launching new products –
- Make a SaaS boilerplate for myself to launch more SaaS fast
- Build a product in validated, saturated market with my own spin
- Consider info products, directories
- Relaunch Sheet2Bio?
$10k/m is a lagging indicator which is out of my control, so I can only focus on leading indicators. The most obvious leading indicators would be:
- Products launched
- No. of distribution channels per product
- Number of paying customers
- Profit trajectory
- Money in the bank
I need to work backwards even more based on this broad map, but it’s a start!
What else can I do?
Comments
@Winkletter Thanks! Hmm what do you mean generate my documentation?
I noticed you have a page for documentation that’s “coming soon.” If you haven’t already written the documentation, Chatty could help with that. You know, the boring stuff. Since you’re planning on building more directories, that might be a good time to work on it. It can be hard to explain things to people who are at a different level of competency, but Chatty is a pretty good interpreter.
Ah ok. Hmm what would be a workflow and prompts to get Chatty to do it? I still have to feed it some info right?
OPTION 1. ChatGPT has a limit of 512MB per file upload. So, the easiest option is to upload the template directly. IF you don’t mind feeding your code into Chatty (for OpenAI to use in training.) Ask it to guess what the overall process of customizing the template would be, and what structure documentation might take for the code. Correct any mistakes. Then start going through each section it suggested asking it to generate instructions.
“Generate an outline for comprehensive documentation of this web template designed for creating list-based sites. Include sections on installation, customization, key features, and troubleshooting.”
“Explain how to install and set up Lists Kit for a new web project, assuming the user has basic knowledge of HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. Include steps for downloading the template, file structure overview, and initial configuration.”
“Describe how to customize the Lists Kit boilerplate for a list site that features [specific feature, e.g., dynamic filtering]. Include code snippets for modifying the HTML, CSS, and JavaScript components.”
OPTION 2: If that doesn’t work out, you could try a process where you tell ChatGPT that you are building a site using boilerplate that you’ve created and you will explain what you’re doing and you want it to generate clear instructions explaining how an inexperienced user can customize the boilerplate.
“Here is a code snippet from my project. [Describe what you are doing to the snippet.] Explain what this code does in the context of a list site and how it can be modified to meet different requirements.”
This is just my guess how you might go about doing this. By the way, all of the prompts above were generated by ChatGPT based on a a scenario I fed to it. ChatGPT is great at explaining how to use ChatGPT.
all of the prompts above were generated by ChatGPT based on a a scenario I fed to it
Hahah what?! That’s so brilliant! Man you’re truly good at this
That’s a pretty good breakdown. I wonder if you could use ChatGPT to generate your documentation for Lists Kit when you put together your next directory.