2 Years Since Unscripted - Life Changing - Now Need Some Advice On My Next Project!

[Tim001]

<div class="bbWrapper">Hi All, <br /> I need some advice, but before I get to that thought I would share some successes with this group. THANK YOU MJ!<br /> <br /> It&#039;s been two years since I read MJ&#039;s Unscripted (randomly stumbled upon the book) and put it to action right away with an idea my wife had - It&#039;s been life changing. I now have a ecom business and it&#039;s doing extremely well with excellent profits. I have been a lot of learning as I go. Unscripted was the punch in the gut I really needed to wake up - for years I worked on self improvement, listening to Jim Rohn and others but it was JM&#039;s message that finally helped me wake up and connect the dots. My current business is breaking some of the CENTS commands, however, I&#039;m aware of that and slowly fixing that. <br /> <br /> My best advice to newer folks here in the community is just START DOING SOMETHING today - it can be anything - it doesn&#039;t matter. Once you start doing keep observing and pivoting. Keep what works and toss out what doesn&#039;t. What I started doing 2 years ago, look very much different from what I&#039;m doing today, it&#039;s because I just did something, moved forward and did a ton of testing and tweaking to find what works. It might seem like you are wasting time, but once you hit something that works, it&#039;s worth it. <br /> <br /> I&#039;ve been able to gain experience areas like, email marketing and automations, giveaways, instagram/building a following, Etsy, Shopify, Streamlining shipping workflows, Amazon FBA, Light Room/PhotoShop, Inventory Management, negotiation with suppliers, trademarks, bringing on other team members, copywriting. It&#039;s been a really crazy two years. If anyone need help in some of these area DM me, I&#039;m happy to give back to the community where I can. <br /> <br /> ********<br /> Here is where I need some advice: <br /> <br /> How do I get started with getting help building software?<br /> ********<br /> <br /> Unrelated to the above I currently have another side project. This is related to my hobby and I have a following in this area. I know the domain very well I have an idea for a tool that can solve problems for the masses and I know how to sell it - this will fully obey CENTS. But, I need the software built. I am currently working on writing up the basic requirements. I am actually a software dev project mgnr so I know how complex software development can get. My question.<br /> <br /> 1. How do go about getting development help? Find someone on Freelancer and share my requirements? <br /> 2. Should I look for a partner? Or hire someone to get me started? <br /> 3. I have funds available to invest, just not sure where to begin and how much I should expect to pay. <br /> 4. I want this built in a way that I can easily update. I need an expert to help brainstorm. <br /> <br /> For the initial version, I need a user forum that will take in input (some input forums will need to be custom built I haven&#039;t seen before), take that input data, apply it to metadata, run rules and then built two output drawings. That will be the product. There are a lot of bells and whistles that can then be built around it. <br /> <br /> I&#039;ve been thinking about this for a long time, the next concurrent steps are going to be to fully document it. <br /> <br /> Tim</div>

 

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[luckywatcher]

<div class="bbWrapper">I&#039;m glad to hear you&#039;ve had some success this past two years! I fall prey to analysis paralysis so hearing your one piece of advice is to start doing something is a good reminder that I need to kick it into gear.<br /> <br /> As it so happens, I&#039;m wanting to start a project and I&#039;m a full-time software engineer. I&#039;m sure I have the skills needed to build what you&#039;re wanting. I&#039;d like to discuss specifics before making any promises.<br /> <br /> But to answer your specific questions, I&#039;ve seen similar projects done several ways.<br /> <ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Find a partner who can do the technical work.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hire someone to manage the tech project. The person you hire will write the project requirements and oversee the development work (which is typically outsourced).<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Many try to cut out the middleman and outsource the work directly. I highly recommend against doing that because sometimes it works but the implementation is garbage. Having someone technical oversee the development work helps prevent that from happening.</li> </ul></li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Hire a freelancer on a site like Fiverr or UpWork.</li> </ul>Each approach has its pros and cons. Since you specifically mention you want this built in a way you can update it, I&#039;d recommend either the first or second approach. That requirement means you want this built right. Without a strong technical lead working/managing the project, you&#039;ll likely get something that does 80% of what you want. Getting the extra 20% of what you want will likely be hard with the base code if outsourced.<br /> <br /> If you&#039;d like to get connected and talk specifics, feel free to DM me! I&#039;m interested in starting a project of my own. Who knows, maybe this can turn into a future partnership.<br /> <br /> P.S. I too just posted my first <a href="https://www.thefastlaneforum.com/community/threads/the-journey-begins-disenchanted-programmer-who-discovered-fastlane.96851/" class="link link--internal">introduction</a> today. You can read about where I&#039;m coming from there.</div>