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Starting our journey
Joda StößerHanover, Germany
In July of 2022 we (Marius & Joda) joined our team @ yay.digital & 2Bros Group on a company workation on Ibiza. For one week we enjoyed some much-needed sun & water, direct human connection as well communication and exchange after over 2 years of home office.
Being passionate about the work we do at our company and web tech & development, we discussed some future ideas with our colleagues to advance the stack of the company, maybe fill the vacation fund or start completely new ideas.
Starting to talk about it on our boat trip, we continued to discuss ideas, paths forward and how to approach it all throughout the way back in airports, planes & trains.
The next time, both of us met up to advance our ideas and developing our approach was the About You Pangea Festival 2022. It gave us some distance from the rut of our daily lives and gave us a space to freely think about new ideas.
Both of us had worked freelance before with varying success & satisfaction and wanted to improve upon it.
Initially thinking about creating projects together on our company #workation in #Ibiza, we started #brainstorming business ideas and drawing up our preferred way of tackling them at the @PangeaFestival. It was a great space to disconnect and rethink our previous approaches. https://t.co/irUZKFZmfV pic.twitter.com/O8T3pYDhId
— coders.fail (@coders_fail) November 10, 2022
With meeting up beforehand, staying 4 days at the festival & having another day after, we could spend some real time together. It gave us enough time to switch it up between brainstorming sessions, swimming, eating, drinking, dancing & chilling.
A lot of different influences from music, artists, cultural events, sports & just people in general allowed us to switch it up to kick-start our creativity.
Our desire to start bootstrapping startups together was not born of a singular business idea nor a dissatisfaction with our jobs or the work we did. But from a drive to grow as people, learn new skills, a belief to thrive as freelancers and entrepreneurs, inspired by other #buildinpublic bootstrappers.Realizing, that getting paid by the hour doesn't provide a lot of opportunity scaling it and very few companies allow to contribute to better processes to allow for internal optimization & automation, never mind actually profiting of it yourself. Mostly the latter.
The longest time was spent on the name we wanted to operate under, how we want to implement our ideas and which started we wanted to use while working near full-time and wanting to validate ideas quickly.
— coders.fail (@coders_fail) November 10, 2022
It became clear, that #bootstrapping & #BuildInPublic was the way to go. pic.twitter.com/3zfUma9ipt
Being interested in working on bigger projects, open-source, non-profits and selflessly improving the world for everyone without getting paid, we longed for a passive income that would allow us to invest the necessary time.
It became clear to us, that we needed an approach to building, launching, validating, marketing & monetizing projects & startups in a way that would get us to the goal the fastest.
The immediate goal would be to get to 2k € MRR, 1k € for each of us, giving us a certain amount of freedom to reduce our working hours in typical jobs and focus more of our time on creating the next one or expanding an existing one.
They needed to be very low maintenance and automatically scalable until the time the monthly revenue would allow us to spent time on it regularly.
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