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Day 003

Hello there!

Dayjob

Worked at $DAYJOB all day. Made a little bit of progress.

Wasn't fun, and I don't feel like I'm building anything for myself.

New SaaS

I'm still focusing on getting this book and a Beeminder goal.

Talked with my coworker about this idea of building a SaaS just for us, and he seems onboard. Even sent him the link to this website!

I'll be doing the initial research I think because I really want to feel in control.

First: the easy, small steps. Rome wasn't built in a single day.

I've been thinking of a concept; a "datashop" where people can request data for a fee. Now that I think about it, I already have a company that I could use as a recipient for this + let my coworker handle 50% of the work.

Maybe no need to create a full-on SaaS?

I want to work on my personal branding though, and not on our corporate branding - I want something permanent, not something ephemeral.

Funnel

The idea is that people come through me. Then I redirect them wherever I want.

As long as I'm in the flow of requests, I can have visibility on the market and can decide what to do.

  1. Create a plain SaaS that should be used by many people
  2. Do a simple scraping job ad-hoc and export it manually for the given customer each month
  3. Give the customer to someone else...

Idea is to keep talking to have a very good idea of who needs what.

Also, increase my personal branding so that people keep coming to me.

Constraints

Here are some constraints:

  1. I want to use and publish free software. There were people doing some kind of proxying thing on GitHub, guys from Belgium... Found it! Ramaproxy. I want to do something similar; give advanced services, but have some of the core infrastructure public.

  2. I want to have instant payments. No "I'll give you 20% of the profits". I want hardcash, and now. Not some pipedream...

  3. I only want customers >3k$/month ... friends don't let friends do B2C

I'm still exploring so I'll create dedicated pages later on.

Changes

  • added sitemap to this website
  • added RSS feed for discovery
  • created Beeminder goal
Last updated: 2025-10-15