#325 - Engineer Makes $64,000 Selling Nerdy Playing Cards on Reddit
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 21 November 2017
⏱️ 9 minutes
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Summary
It started with a single Legend of Zelda playing card she drew for a friend and posted on Reddit—then it became a side hustle selling more than 6,400 full decks.
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| 0:00.0 | Hey side hustlers, welcome to episode 325 of the show. |
| 0:11.9 | In the US it is Thanksgiving week, I hope you're having a good Thanksgiving wherever you |
| 0:15.2 | are. |
| 0:16.2 | Today I've got a great story for you about an engineer, software engineer who makes $64,000 |
| 0:21.2 | selling nerdy playing cards on Reddit. |
| 0:24.0 | So a bunch of good lessons here about this kind of product as well as that platform, how |
| 0:28.1 | do you sell something on Reddit? |
| 0:29.7 | In editing this story kind of brought me back to some childhood memories. |
| 0:33.1 | I remember when I was a boy right after the Civil War, our nation was still rebuilding. |
| 0:37.7 | The telegraph had just been invented. |
| 0:39.6 | Railroads were connecting the Eastern Seaboard with the Western Pioneer. |
| 0:43.0 | And while my dad was outside hunting buffalo for our dinner, I would spend time with my |
| 0:46.5 | Nana, my grandma, and we would play video games. |
| 0:49.8 | Now at least one of those things is true. |
| 0:51.7 | Starting at age 5 or 6, I used to play video games with my Nana. |
| 0:55.0 | She was pretty good at Mario Brothers, whenever I got into trouble at Pastor to Controller |
| 0:58.1 | and she helped me out. |
| 0:59.5 | And then a few years later, the first Legend of Zelda game came out and it changed my life. |
| 1:03.6 | I played Legend of Zelda pretty much all the time for six months. |
| 1:07.0 | It was basically like all I did. |
| 1:08.5 | I think once in a while I went to school. |
| 1:10.2 | And even if you're younger than me, you probably know, or at least you might know, about |
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