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Side Hustle School

Ep. 3440 - Q&A: “What's the best platform for my idea?”

Side Hustle School

Chris Guillebeau

Business, Side Hustle, Small Business, Careers, Entrepreneurship,, Entrepreneurship

4.73.3K Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 4 minutes

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Summary

Do you start with your idea, or start with the ideal platform for your idea? Today’s caller wants to remain “platform agnostic.” How should he proceed? 


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0:00.0

What's the best platform for my side hustle idea?

0:11.0

And in fact, do you start with your idea, if you've got a bunch of ideas or you settle on one idea, let's say, do you go out and say, okay, I've got the idea what is the best platform?

0:20.0

Or perhaps do you kind of go the other say, okay, I've got the idea what is the best platform? Or perhaps

0:21.5

do you kind of go the other direction and say, I've got a platform in mind. I really like TikTok,

0:26.9

for example. I really like LinkedIn. Or it could be like a medium. I really like podcasting. What is

0:34.5

the best podcast I can create? Like which approach do you take? And honestly, both

0:38.3

approaches have merit. And so we've seen plenty of case studies that go one way or the other.

0:44.6

Today's caller is trying to figure this out. They want to remain platform agnostic. And they're like,

0:50.6

you know, I've got to, I want to focus on my idea and not think so much about

0:54.1

the platform.

0:55.1

Should I start with business fundamentals?

0:57.6

You know, what do you think about that?

0:59.3

And it's a helpful way of thinking when you're trying to figure out, okay, what is the

1:02.6

best next thing for me to do?

1:04.3

There's all kinds of things I could do.

1:05.9

How do I make this choice?

1:07.5

How do I not just be swayed by all the different content and data and information that's

1:12.8

coming my way each day when I think, oh, I should be doing this, I should be doing that.

1:17.3

Really, you want to be strategic or at least a little bit intentional about thinking through,

1:21.4

how do you spend your time? You know, which side hustle ideas are you able to move forward with?

1:26.4

So let's hear from this caller.

1:31.9

As I said, I think this can be helpful to lots of folks, detailed question and my answer coming right up.

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