How I Made $15,000 / Day as a Fresh College Grad
Published in 2018, this chronicle by @leinad520 details the mechanics of building a profitable, self-funded business without venture backing. Key verified financial milestone: $15,000.
Core Principles for Independent Builders:
Charging customers from day one acts as the ultimate filter for building software that solves genuine, high-urgency problems.
Keeping fixed overhead low and leveraging lean infrastructure allows founders to stay alive until market tailwinds kick in.
Small, repetitive improvements in customer retention and conversion rates yield massive returns over multi-year horizons.
Community Debate Themes:
The community focused on B2B customer acquisition channels, cold email vs SEO distribution, and balancing full-time employment with side-project development.
CATEGORY Bootstrapping & MRR →
HISTORICAL ERA Cloud & Mobile Era (2014–2019)
COMMUNITY SCORE ★ 20 points
TOTAL DISCUSSIONS 25 comments
As you mentioned everyone knew about the arbitrage opportunities at that time, the problem was getting a Korean bank account if I remember correctly. How did you do that? Did you have connections in Korea? If so, why are you marketing this article as some sort of self-help piece that anybody can follow?
This just seemed to be all over the place, it started out with a very rare opportunity that you capitalized on and then went into leaving the corporate world, starting a startup and blah blah blah but you haven't done anything substantive. You very clearly claim that you don't know how to code well enough to run a startup without foreign help, maybe if you take a job in the industry and get the mentor-ship you clearly need you'd be able to code well enough to be able to run your startup without delays.
This just all seems like half-assed advice from someone who's probably too young to be giving it.
No offense OP
I found this worth reading. It features a number of interesting quotations from famous people I was not aware of. (e.g. "Competition is for losers")
Usually a story with a title like this is bullshit, but this one does detail how they guy actually was raking in a load of cash through online arbitrage. I was surprised.
You should have known better than to try and impress HN. You could have made $1M/day as an infant and people here will still poo-poo it.
I, for one, enjoyed the article. Wondering if you have any recommendations for discovering opportunities like this in a repeatable/systematic way.
Looks like it's missing a lot of the details about the "how".
"This was a more complicated operation with tighter spreads, and required a net long position in crypto"
Based on this, it sounds a lot like gambling, and this experience is survivor bias.
I was expecting mediocrity, but this a good share. Thanks.