Rags to Bitches - Journey to escape the 9 to 5.

$100k within 3 months, even if starting from scratch, is definitely possible. Considering the skill set and experience you mentioned though, it's just not happening.

You basically want to fully educate yourself, and be making $50k/month within 4 weeks. Might want to set some more realistic goals.
 


Definitely need to set a down-to-earth objective.....100k in 3 months is simply not possible with the product you mentioned, or at least extremely unlikely.
 
Hey good luck. But agree do you really need to set such a specific (and high) total. Simply make as much money as possible in your time frame :) then move on with your new found experience.
 
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Get used to this.

MOST people will tell you that you CAN'T do something.

It's your job to prove them wrong, and reach YOUR goal.


Who cares if you don't know PHP 100% yet, or haven't coded a WP Plugin yet.

NOTHING is impossible.

Set your goals, make a plan, and GET TO IT.
Work every day as much as you can!


Good luck!
 
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You'll make $100k in WordPress themes faster than you would with a plugin imo. Neither is easy, and in 3 months without knowing php it's unlikely.

I have a bit of experience in the plugin space, and it's cutthroat. Themes are rough too, but the barrier to entry is so low with things like themeforest that if you can do volume at a reasonable quality you can earn pretty well. Plus there are plugins that take care of all the heavy lifting for themes like admin panels.

You know python, so you have options, but hitting 100k in 3 months, while possible, is difficult, and the road to achieving it is different than a long term road I would expect.

Have you considered SAAS flipping? You can do that with python, good money there. Or Site clone scripts also eg sell clones of groupon, themeforest, etc, etc to wannabe insta-rich fucks.
 
Here is a tip. Stop referring to women or success as bitches. Respect the game.

Also, smart idea not finishing a useless degree.

Better to aim high ($100k in 3 months) and fail, than to accept mediocrity.

That said, Charles has a point about setting goals which you can hit and build on.
 
I'll reiterate what someone recently said:

Don't tell people you're going to do something before you actually do it. Getting encouragement is great, especially if you're the kind of person that is receptive to it, but after a short while you'll find yourself catering to your supporters and losing sight of your personal goal. All the while feeling just as exhausted as if you'd actually gotten something accomplished.

I recently started a similar challenge for myself and advertised it just like you're doing here. The feedback was great, and I've met some wonderful people, but I quickly found it very hard to pivot when I needed to because I felt obligated to follow through on specific commitments I no longer agreed with.

Instead, set a goal and privately (or less publicly) document it over the course of the next few months. Once you have met some good milestones, start fishing for feedback (or don't).

But good luck to you nonetheless.
 
Day 1

So I'm reading this while eating Thanksgiving leftovers...

I was pretty set on $100,000 in three months... but let's make that $15,000 by Christmas. It's a smaller, more attainable goal for me to achieve. :xmas-smiley-030:

I chose to make this journal public because I think it'll hold me more accountable... if it doesn't, I'll nix it.

Appreciate the support that you guys have shown.

As for the bitches, that's just a reference to Boondocks. Good show, which unfortunately, I no longer have the time to watch.

Why's that?

Well... I fuckin' busted my ass for the past 10 hours. Here's the material I covered today:
  • Some stuff about PHP syntax - variables, control flow, functions, etc.
  • Wordpress Actions, Filters, and Hooks
  • Storing and retreiving data with add_post_meta and get_post_meta
  • Wordpress's The Loop
  • Cron jobs and other scheduling goodness
  • The Settings API

And here's how I applied all this knowledge:
  • Created a simple plugin that displays which plugins are active and which are disabled in the admin_notices bar
  • Created another simple shortcode plugin that takes subreddit names and links it to reddit.com/r/$subreddit
  • Made an example options page with Wordpress's Settings API with drop down menus, input boxes, and file uploads. Gonna expand on this tomorrow to start the framework of my plugin.

Stackoverflow and Tutsplus are helping me get through any snags. A lot of this knowledge is still shaky - gonna have to review and repeat tomorrow to solidify it.

Tomorrow, I keep learning more about Wordpress's Settings API, play around with other APIs, and start going deeper into PHP. It's a fucking ugly language, but I sort of like it for some reason...

Anyways, gotta bounce. :rainfro:
 
productionhead said:
Do you have an idea already on what plugin you're going to write and sell?
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Yup.

Part of my motivation for making this journal was to find people in the industry who could review and suggest features for my plugin before it went live.

Hopefully, I'll be finished coding it in a week. I'll start picking people's brain then.
 
That's a boatload of confidence you've got, and you've piqued my interest to now see what kind of plugin you're making. I wish you the best of luck in your endeavors and I'll be keeping an eye on this thread.
 
Dr_Ngo said:
You've been a fuckup the past few years and you expect to all of a sudden flip a switch and make $100k in 3 months?

I believe in setting small, realistic goals. Focus on hitting your first $1k, then, $5k, then $10k, etc. Achieving small goals builds momentum and keeps you motivated.
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I jizz a little everytime Dr_Ngo posts on WF. ^^^ This.
 
Day 2

Okay... here's what I was brainstorming for the last few nights...

A Wordpress plugin that scrapes articles from the main directories, eHow, LiveStrong, etc., integrates with spinners like WordAI to rewrite the content, and sets a cron job to make posts every ___ hour.

So... pretty much a shittier WP Robot. Scratch that idea.

My other plugin plans focus on making a few small WP plugins that help with SEO/squeeze pages. Small-time stuff that I'll probably sell over at WaFo for $9.95 and get some beer-money. :2drinkspit:

Here's the main question: should I move onto python frameworks or stick with PHP? I don't know whether to push through coding WP themes/plugins or move onto bigger and badder projects.
 
Can't understand the need to call females bitches constantly... maybe that's why there is a lot of virgins on here.

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Not trying to trump your idea but it's rare that the first thing you try will work. Have like 10 different attack plans. That increases the possibility of hitting gold with at least one.

Best of luck though.
 
Wong Shun Leung said:
Not trying to trump your idea but it's rare that the first thing you try will work. Have like 10 different attack plans. That increases the possibility of hitting gold with at least one.
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This is bad advice.

Businesses are not lottery tickets where you have a probability of striking gold, and by increasing your tickets you'll increase your odds.

A successful business (one that is profitable and consistent) requires time and energy to create.

In recent years every business I've created is one that was seriously thought out, and spent months (or years) of hard work and dedication before releasing. And when it released it was successful because I took the time to do everything the right way.

This was a departure to how I did things in the past, where every month a new project was being worked on. Nothing was done the right way, and it certainly gave the illusion that I just needed to try more things before I lucked on something that worked. But in reality they were just half-assed projects that might've succeeded had they had my full attention.

Have an attack plan, execute 100% on that plan, and avoid shiny object syndrome.
 
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