Tom's attempts to make money with Software as a Service
You’ve had your great idea, completed market research, have your marketing plan in place… and now you need to build it. But what technology should you use?
Here I’ll briefly discuss the choices I made for TweetingMachine.
Note: This is a lightening-quick post, and my last for a few weeks; I get married on Saturday, and will be out of contact on my honeymoon after that until hallway through June.
As mentioned before, I am not a natural designer, and my previous design attempts resulted in physical illness for anyone unfortunate enough to view them. This is not an ideal state of affairs when one wants to sell to the general public.
Luckily, there are a few methods you can use to stop yourself from visually poisoning potential customers. By far the easiest is to outright cheap and buy a theme. Still, one can’t help but worry: what will I get after handing over my money?
I contacted the authors of the two themes (from ThemeForest) that I use in TweetingMachine, and they agreed to me showing you their themes’ details.
Update June 2015: I now strongly recommend using Gun.io instead of vWorker.
When I have mentioned in passing that I used to earn a decent living from freelancing on vWorker (formerly RentACoder), I’m often asked two questions: how did you get started; and how much did you earn? Let me begin with the first question: Continue reading Winning your first freelance job on vWorker: how I got started