cpeneguy's comments

cpeneguy | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: Those making over $1K/month on side projects, what did you make?

How can you make any money at this? Printful is expensive and you offer free shipping on orders. Say one of your women's shirts runs 22.99. Printful charges 16 for the shirt and 5 for shipping, so you're only making 1.99 on that order. You're going to have to sell a whole lotta shirts! Are you planning on doing away with the free shipping at some point to increase your net or are you doing this for fun?

I only ask because I was considering using printful for our online shirt sales so that I wouldn't have to do much but they ate up all the profits. If you have the cash to pay upfront, screenprinting is the way to go.

cpeneguy | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: Motivational Budget, a tool to know how much you can save

I would remove the login requirements to generate a "budget" until you want to save that budget. You could also have additional features that are unlocked only after an account is created. Also, I would offer other currencies in addition to the £.

cpeneguy | 9 years ago | on: Show HN: A simple web app to store passwords

Just my 2 cents - before you ever release anything to HN, make sure that what you have works 100%. You can always add other functionality later. You would have been better off waiting to submit with the SSL cert working and limited functionality with a poorly designed website than submitting with a broken SSL cert and no domain name.

cpeneguy | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: I am doing $2M annually as a solopreneur and need your help

I worked for a company years ago that was in the same situation that you are in now. I was the first employee brought in to assist with the more day to day operations of the business. Things went well for a while. We added on more staff and I moved up and that's when I started to see the problems with the founder. His lack of management skills began to take its toll and the company was dead in the water six months later.

Dealing with tech is the easy part, it's the people that will get you.

cpeneguy | 14 years ago | on: Ask HN: How many of you built a profitable startup while having a day job?

The Budgeting app is nice. How are you making income off it? It's free and has no adds.

cpeneguy | 14 years ago | on: GRPN IPO

I thinking 38.50

cpeneguy | 14 years ago | on: Show HN: My 24 hour project SpendStudy.com

Nice site. I did receive an error when I placed a decimal in the amount field which is preventing me from doing anything else on the site. May want to do some simple type conversion before you accept what people enter. If there is a way to break it, people will find it.

invalid literal for int() with base 10: '500.00'