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Side Hustle School

#2806 - Failure Friday: Coder’s App Flops on Product Hunt

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 September 2024

⏱️ 7 minutes

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In this week’s “Failure Friday” segment, we hear from a hacker who develops an app to solve a common coding problem, but launches before conducting proper market research. Oops! Back to the drawing board. Side Hustle School features a new episode EVERY DAY, featuring detailed case studies of people who earn extra money without quitting their job. This year, the show includes free guided lessons and listener Q&A several days each week. Show notes: SideHustleSchool.com Email: [email protected] Be on the show: SideHustleSchool.com/questions Connect on Instagram: @193countries Visit Chris's main site: ChrisGuillebeau.com Read A Year of Mental Health: yearofmentalhealth.substack.com If you're enjoying the show, please pass it along! It's free and has been published every single day since January 1, 2017. We're also very grateful for your five-star ratings—it shows that people are listening and looking forward to new episodes. 😎 🙏🏼 To learn more about listener data and our privacy practices visit: https://www.audacyinc.com/privacy-policy Learn more about your ad choices. Visit https://podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

Have you notice that the world keeps getting smarter? You've got all kinds of AI technology,

0:05.1

you've got all kinds of gadgets, new apps, everything is upgraded, even your smart home.

0:09.8

Well guess what? Your e-commerce business should upgrade too. That's why you need our long-time

0:14.2

partnership station. They can help you achieve exceptional shipping efficiency with a robust

0:18.6

all-in-one order fulfillment system. They're going to help you like they've helped so many of our

0:23.0

listeners so many people around the world lead your business into the future

0:26.2

with technology built to save you from extra costs and headaches.

0:29.2

Check it out for yourself. Lead your e-commerce business into that

0:32.2

smarter future with the shipping software that delivers.

0:35.0

Switch to shipstation today.

0:37.0

Go to shipstation.com and use code hustle to sign up for your free 60-day trial.

0:41.0

That's shipstation.com code hustle.

0:45.0

Let's go back to the drawing board today and by that I mean let's look at a story in a segment known as Failure Friday

0:59.8

every Friday we get to hear from a side hustler, a small business owner, an

1:04.8

entrepreneur, someone who shares a story of something that does not go well,

1:08.8

something that is kind of a mistake, a misstep, a disaster, or an outright failure.

1:14.7

Sometimes it's a bad idea, sometimes it's an idea that doesn't quite execute or

1:20.4

implement properly.

1:21.6

Sometimes the idea is great, the implementation is great,

1:25.3

but something comes along to kind of derail the process and what do we learn from that

1:30.0

experience? Like what does the side-h hustler or small business owner or

1:33.8

entrepreneur take away from the experience how can they come back stronger how can they

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