#325 - Engineer Makes $64,000 Selling Nerdy Playing Cards on Reddit

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.8 • 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. Side Hustle School features a new story EVERY DAY of someone who started a hustle without quitting their job. You’ll learn how they got the idea, how they overcame challenges along the way, and what the results are. Share: #SideHustleSchoolShow notes: SideHustleSchool.comTwitter: @chrisguillebeauInstagram: @193countries 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	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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