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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3131 - First $1,000: Sleep-Deprived Dad Creates Digital Baby Journal

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 28 July 2025

⏱️ 6 minutes

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Summary

In this week’s First $1,000 segment, discover how one new parent turned a 3 a.m. spreadsheet session into a sellable baby tracker. With no ads and no tech background, he reached $1,000 in sales using only parenting groups and a Notion template.

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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0:00.0

Lemonada.

0:02.0

All right, all right. What's up? Welcome back to Side Hustle School. My name's Chris Gillibault, your host.

0:15.5

In today's episode, a sleep-deprived dad creates a digital baby journal. In this week's first $1,000 segment,

0:23.1

in fact, you're going to discover how a new parent turns a 3 a.m. spreadsheet session into a

0:28.0

sellable baby tracker. Baby tracker. That's what he sells. With no ads, no tech background,

0:33.4

he reaches $1,000 in sales using only parenting groups in a Notion template, a template using

0:38.8

the app Notion. Today's episode is part of a feature. We call your first $1,000, as you might guess,

0:44.6

as you might know, if you've been around for a while. It's all about how somebody makes their first

0:48.0

thousand dollars. How do they get to that point? Not their first $100,000. That is also

0:52.6

pretty awesome, but it would be a much longer story.

0:55.3

And we want to help listeners take action on their ideas quickly so that they can get to their

0:59.8

first thousand dollars and beyond. So let's hear about this first time parent who finds

1:04.6

some clarity in chaos, ends up building a digital product that's helping other people as well,

1:09.4

helping other people and bringing in revenue for him. The sales come from organic traffic, which means he's not paying

1:15.1

for it, which is nice. So let's hear about it. Let's hear the story. I'm going to pass the

1:18.9

microphone, and I'll be back at the end with a few words of wrap up. Life in general can be

1:24.8

chaotic. Do you ever experience chaos in your life or your business? I certainly do. I was recently on book tour and trying to manage a whole bunch of other stuff at the same time. And so I'd get ready to go out and speak with a crowd and audience of awesome people, perhaps including some of our listeners out there. And then I'm also thinking about other things I need to do

1:45.5

and just trying to manage and keep up as much as possible. One thing I don't have to worry about,

1:50.1

though, is order fulfillment because Shipstation handles that. And ShipStation can help you handle it.

1:55.5

If you have orders to send out, well, let me tell you, you can automate shipping tasks.

2:00.4

Automations allow you to

2:01.4

smoothly print shipping labels. You can scale your business. You never need to upgrade. Shipstation

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