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15 Years of (Failed) Side Projects

When writing about the hyper-niche strategy, I thought back to all my own side projects. In this post, I offer a brief post-mortem for each one, so you can learn from my mistakes and don’t repeat them. (There were even more projects, but these were the main ones.) Webmaster forum (2003-2015)While this started as a…

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April 30, 2019November 13, 2020 by Remo Uherek

What I Learned Building the ZenFriend Meditation App

In 2014 I created ZenFriend and documented the process in a detailed project log (see below) inspired by Amir Rajan’s log about a game that ranked #1 in the US App Store. Summary The most important metric is not the number of downloads. It’s the number of Daily Active Users (DAU) and Monthly Active Users…

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April 17, 2016May 27, 2020 by Remo Uherek

How to Build a Product Business

I have just watched the Stacking the Bricks Presentation (Click here to download the MOV file) by Amy Hoy. It’s about how to build a product business, by showing how 37signals and other product businesses got started: A good way to start is to create a first paying, downloadable product. It could be a summary,…

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January 26, 2014May 26, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Playing it safe, failing to pivot, failing to quit (or sell)

In 2004 — wow, I’m just realising that this is exactly 10 years ago now :) — we have started a hosted forum service — a wordpress.com for forums — under the name of Ultraboard (later renamed to Parlaris) where you could create a free forum on a subdomain, e.g. yourforum.ultraboard.ch. When deciding to build this service, we set ourselves two options: build a…

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January 21, 2014May 26, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Arztrechnungen Projekt wird eingestellt. Ein Fazit zum Schluss.

(Dies ist eine Fortsetzung meines Postings vom März 2013) Liebe Freunde, Diese Facebook Seite wurde vor 9 Monaten gestartet, und war ein aufregendes Experiment. Ich wollte ausprobieren, ob man ohne Budget und mit spartanischen Werkzeugen, also ohne Website, sondern nur mittels Facebook-Seite, eine Konsumentenbewegung starten kann. Gewisse Erfolge haben wir erzielt. Mehrheitlich sind wir gescheitert….

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December 30, 2013May 20, 2020 by Remo Uherek

Arztkosten Initiative

Update 30.12.2013: Das Arztrechnungen Projekt wird eingestellt. Ein Fazit zum Schluss. Update 3.4.2013: Bereits 10 Tage nach dem Start der Initiative wurde ich vom Tagesanzeiger betreffend eines Artikels kontaktiert. Dieser Artikel ist nun heute erschienen. Der Artikel wurde im Newsnet publiziert, d.h. neben dem Tagi ebenfalls in der BaZ, der BZ und Der Bund. Als…

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March 31, 2013May 20, 2020 by Remo Uherek

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