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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3154 - STORY: Civil Engineer Sells Hooded Baby Robes on Amazon

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau / Onward Project

Business, Entrepreneurship, Careers

4.83.3K Ratings

🗓️ 20 August 2025

⏱️ 10 minutes

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Summary

After a civil engineer in Florida learns to sell hooded baby robes on Amazon, he moves to Bali with his wife, where he builds an app to help him find products. This app turns into a business that employs 80 people and serves 100,000 users. 

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0:00.0

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0:45.2

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0:49.8

A civil engineer sells hooded baby robes and many other items on Amazon.

0:59.3

This guy, he has a pretty crazy story. I'm excited to bring it to you today.

1:02.9

A civil engineer in Florida learns to sell hooded baby robes and many other products on

1:07.9

Amazon. He becomes an expert, not just in that particular market, but in selling

1:12.0

on Amazon, ends up moving to Bali with his wife, where he builds an app to help him find products

1:17.3

to sell. This app turns into a business that employs a lot of people and serves more than

1:22.1

100,000 users. This is a true story of side hustle scalability. We first brought it to you way back in

1:29.7

2018, doing a little remix here. Whenever we do a remix, we re-record the story so that

1:35.4

everything is fresh, sometimes include a few updates as well. This is the story of Jungle Scout.

1:41.1

Jungle Scout. It is in fact an app. It is still going strong. Well, it's an app extension. I'm not entirely sure of those details, how that all works. But the point is he's doing really well. He's found a way to help a lot of people and profit himself, which is, of course, the goal of SaitaSull School. I want to help you be able to do that as well. So quick shout out to our sponsor. Then I'll bring you

2:00.9

that story. Civil Engineer sells hooded baby robes among other things. So let's look at how he goes

2:06.7

from selling these items to building this app, building a whole business that is related, but also

2:11.8

quite different from how he got started. So detailed story coming right up.

2:22.5

As an e-commerce business, you build trust with your customers one package at a time.

2:28.3

That's why smart retailers use ShipStation, including many of our longtime listeners.

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