Maker PlayBook - eBooks
π€ 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.
π 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.
β 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
π‘ Opportunities
- Help people get better at their existing jobs
- Teach them how to get good at social media
- How to build
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using No Code tools. - Take 500-page technical books, shorten them, and then shorten them some more.
π§ Tools
- πΈSell: Gumroad
- πLaunch - Product Hunt
- π’ Promote - Twitter, Hacker News, IndieHacker, Linkedin
π 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