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title: The Importance of Income
date: 2015-11-02
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#### It's scary how much a small number can mean
I'm preparing myself to start launching a long-term project that I have
been working on for the past few months. It's something I'm going to be
doing on the side and I don't hope to earn much of a living off
it -- for one simple reason. Per month, if the service takes off, I'd
have to pay around $108.88USD.
I don't really know how that compares to other startups. But considering
it's a (so far) one man operation and I'm not expecting to make a living
off it, I think it's rather cheap compared to something like
[Twitter](http://www.amazon.ca/Hatching-Twitter-Story-Friendship-Betrayal/dp/1591847087). Also, about $99 of that wouldn't need to be accounted for (pun unintended) until I hit around 500 users, which would mean at least the first couple of months would only cost me \$9.88, out of pocket. The \$99, by the way, would be for the 'Startup' level of [UserApp.io](https://www.userapp.io/), which I am using for user accounts and payments -- I could ditch it in favor of my own user system (and in fact at some point I plan to), but for now I don't want to focus on that, and therefore must pay the price when I hit the user cap.
So how can I make the project self-sufficient? Well, donations will be a
big part of it. There will be two ranks -- a $5 and a $15 -- that will hopefully be able to manage the upkeep cost. These will also be
monthly subscriptions, which means if as little as 20 users (out of the
500 cap) bought the $5 rank, that would be $100 I wouldn't have to
worry about. A minimum of 8 people buying the $15 rank would make the
entire project entirely self-funded, at $120 a month of income.
Now this is making a lot of assumptions, such as if the project will
actually take off, or if 20 people in 500 donate, but I think it's a
decent assumption that it will work.
Another important factor is investors, but I can cover that another
time.