Tell HN: I recorded a short presentation, and sold $14,379 in the first day

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6 years ago

Hey HN — I wanted to share some data to show how useful it can be to have a decent audience on the internet.

Earlier this week, I spent no more than 16 hours prepping and recording a short video about I topic I know well. Yesterday I put it for sale on Gumroad [1], tweeted about it [2], and I already sold 234 copies for $14,379 worth of videos [3].

Last December, I did the same thing with a short technical ebook about AWS [4]. Since then, I sold $78K worth of PDFs in just under 4 months. At the time, I had 11K followers on Twitter. Now I have 25K.

I've been building an audience for 14 months. I started selling online 4 months ago, and now I'm close to making $100K [5]. I'm really fascinated by the opportunity of making a living from my own digital creations, and if you have any questions I'd be happy to answer them if I can.

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[1] https://gumroad.com/l/twitter-audience/hn

[2] https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1252963753647316992

[3] https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1253447751779487744

[4] https://gumroad.com/l/aws-good-parts/corona

[5] https://twitter.com/dvassallo/status/1253161719108493313

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