Ep. 3056 - STORY: Architect Creates Mini-Blind Repair Too
Side Hustle School
Chris Guillebeau
4.7 • 3.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 May 2025
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
It takes a long time to get to market, and success doesn't come cheap—but this mini-blind “prescription” now earns an extra $15,000 a year for its inventor.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.
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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: team@sidehustleschool.com
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.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. 😎 🙏🏼
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| 0:00.0 | SIDISL School is brought to you by our longtime partner ShipStation. With ShipStation, |
| 0:04.6 | lead your business into the future with smart features and automations that boost efficiency and save you time. |
| 0:10.8 | Over 130,000 companies have grown their e-commerce businesses with ShipStation. Calm the chaos of order fulfillment with the shipping software that delivers. |
| 0:18.9 | Go to shipstation.com and use code hustle to sign up for your free trial. |
| 0:22.9 | That's shipstation.com code hustle. |
| 0:28.1 | Lemonada. |
| 0:32.9 | Architect creates mini blind repair tool. Welcome back, friends. Welcome to Saitosl School. It's Chris |
| 0:43.4 | Gillebeau, your host. This year, we're bringing you some remixes of our early best years |
| 0:48.1 | stories, greatest hits, if you will, especially in those early years, which was a long time ago, |
| 0:53.5 | 2017 and 2018, re-recording |
| 0:56.6 | every episode, giving some updates in some cases. And today, sometimes I tell you a story |
| 1:02.8 | so you can learn what not to do. In fact, we had a whole series called Failure Friday. |
| 1:07.0 | Perhaps we'll revisit that at some point. Or maybe let's say what could have been better, |
| 1:11.5 | which is not to make light of anyone's story in any way, but rather to illustrate that this is a |
| 1:16.4 | learning process. And I want your side hustle to not cost a lot of money to start. I want it to not |
| 1:21.7 | take forever to start. These are two core values of side hustle school. Don't spend a lot of money. Don't take too long |
| 1:29.9 | before moving forward. And now the outcome of today's story is a good one. It's about an architect |
| 1:35.5 | who sells this mini blind repair kit. He brings in an extra $15,000 a year once he is up and |
| 1:41.2 | running. But it did take some real time and some real money to get to that |
| 1:45.0 | point. So a couple different ways you could look at it. You can be like, it's great that he makes |
| 1:48.9 | $15,000 a year without doing much. You could also say, well, you know, with all the time and money |
| 1:54.0 | it took to get there, I wonder if we could have done something different on the front end. |
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