Shipping Two Monetized Businesses In 200 Hours

“If I have seen further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants.” ~ Isaac Newton

We live in a copy-paste culture.

Reusing samples in popular songs (like Hard Knock life in Lukas Graham’s song Mama Said) is common practice nowadays.

Today, I build innovator.supply from many of the software architecture and business evaluation I used for Hypetroop. Reusability and Shortcut hacking was how and why I did it.

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Reusability

You will often write a piece of code, typically a library that you’ll want to reuse in another project. Modularity is a fundamental principle that drives the creation and maintenance of software.

Just imagine writing the same code for a button overtime you start writing a new software. That would be annoying, wouldn’t it?

Programmers are dubbed “lazy” because they look for shortcuts to build solutions with efficiency.

Working hard isn’t working better. As I said to my followers in the newsletter:

Back in the Summer of 2015, I had a full-gear football practice in heatwave weather (40°C/104°F) during our training camp with double daily practices. We also had some guys drop from heatstrokes that camp. Just because we were working hard doesn’t mean we working efficiently. The program since then instilled morning practices to retain the quality and mental clarity during camp practices.

I also remember refusing significant help from online courses, and trying to develop hypetroop.com alone and taking hundreds of hours to try to get it off the ground via a brute force mentality. Last month, when I simply purchased an online course, I spent 120 hours building hypetroop.com, then refactored some of that code to build innovator.supply in 50 hours without help. Although luck in finding the right online course had a lot to do with it (since many do not go in-depth), getting help for that first result was needed.

Shortcut Hacking

Here’s a question about a problem in Haskell. Below are some answers provided.

Solution 1

count :: [Integer] -> [[Integer]]
count [] = [[]]
count (x:xs) =
  -- get all possible sequences for the remaining digits
  let
    remDigits :: [[Integer]]
    remDigits = count xs
  in
  -- pull out a possible sequence for the remaining digits
  do nextDigits <- remDigits
     -- pull out all possible values for the current digit
     y <- [0..x]
     -- record that "current digit" : "remaining digits" is
     -- a valid output.
     return (y:nextDigits)

Solution 2

count = mapM (enumFromTo 0)

Both do the same thing but why not look for efficient ways in building businesses and generating revenue streams without spending extreme amounts of wasted effort into it? The key is in “hacking” shortcuts to find profitability. Solution 2 abstracts higher and is more readable by those proficient at Haskell.

Most developers will progress until they understand and prefer the one-liner. Similarly, we must progress as businesspeople to prefer and understand powerful, simplistic and multi-purposeful business decisions.

And this is not analogous for only software. Looking at cars people create a single design, and use it across the 1000 cars in the same series. Or some will create a recipe for a great cake. To create that cake all you need is fetch the recipe, and ingredients. The issue is in building that first cake.

I built Hypetroop.com after climbing an enigmatic learning curve of business and software lessons with the long term vision of transforming the indie music scene. I just built innovator.supply with the short term vision of generating revenue in an emerging space with as little effort as possible. But how do I fight a war on two fronts? The key is I don’t. I’m a big believer in the 4 hour work week. Online businesses are very compelling because much of it is automated. When the fundamental features are in place, if revenue is generated simply feed that into the purchasing of traffic. If the amount of people that click through end up purchasing your service, a machine is built.

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