Maker PlayBook - eBooks

🤔 TLDR

Find a niche audience, create short-form, niche, practical eBooks using your existing skillset, sell it using no-code tools like gumroad, and promote it to your niche audience.

📖 Playbook

• Bundle existing skills
• Keet it short and practical
• Build in Public -> Build an Audience
• Self Publish
• Sell it on gumroad or podia
• Be highly engaged online, especially Twitter
• Having your own website helps - use No Code Tools to build
• Hybrid Products - mix-n-match pdfs, short videos, notion docs, Airtable databases, etc.

✍ Who

• Alex Llull wrote The Twitter Thief
• Arvid Kahl wrote Zero To Sold & is writing Audience First
• Bruno Raljic with 11 ways to set up your Gumroad product page
• Daniel Vassallo wrote The Good Parts of AWS (https://dvassallo.gumroad.com/#MsVlG) & Everyone Can Build a Twitter Audience
• Julia Evans writes & sells Short form zines on technical topics
• Randall Kanna wrote The Standout Developer
• Shawn wrote The Coding Career Handbook

💡 Opportunities

• Help people get better at their existing jobs
• Teach them how to get good at social media
• How to build <X> using No Code tools.
• Take 500-page technical books, shorten them, and then shorten them some more.

🔧 Tools

• 💸Sell: Gumroad
• 🚀Launch - Product Hunt
• 📢 Promote - Twitter, Hacker News, IndieHacker, Linkedin

🌐 References

• How I Made $30,000 on My First Self-Published Book by Randall Kanna
• Tweet Thread on Coding Career HandBook by Shawn
• I made $210,822 selling a pdf and a video on the internet by Daniel Vassallo