How to launch a product with less than $10/month.
Fabio Reyes
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Having just launched my product, aka Stryvin, I'd like to share my experience of getting a product to market with minimal economic resources.
Over the last decade I've dedicated myself to building several products, but this last one has been a challenge because I had to build it with a monthly burn rate of less than $10, and the first thing I've noticed is that instead of having a resource scarcity, I've actually seen a resource transformation. You stop paying for things with money and start paying with time, knowledge and even psychological resources.
Less than $10/month and no compensation requires total commitment and sacrifice, as well as your full technical (ideally multidisciplinary) expertise and full-time work ~80hrs/week. You essentially become a one-man band.
Overcoming the lack of a team: I spent most of my time learning the skills of what would have been employees and extra time executing them: coding, marketing, sales, design and psychology, etc
No advertising: I design the product so that it can spread by itself: design for network effects, wom, virality (easier said than done).
Infrastructure: Open source tools, efficient computing/requests code and cloud credits.
I basically only pay for the domain name, I am always looking for ways to do the rest of the work myself in the first place. As I said, time is basically the new currency of exchange.
Over the past few years, I've been determined to to experience the discipline of proving to myself that it's possible to create a business and even overcome poverty with very minimal resources in difficult economic conditions.
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Daniel Burns@dan_burns
Impressive Fabio, thanks for sharing! Wishing you good luck 🚀
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Producthunt's Free plan gives you all the basic features to launch for free. You could also use a combo of free tiers from Airtable for your database, Vercel for hosting, and Shufflejs.dev for your landing page. Should be doable under $10/month to start. Other free options are out there too if you get creative! Rooting for your successful launch! 🚀
Thanks for your information! Good luck to you~
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