Follow me as I show you my journey from 0 to 10k, and I teach you lessons I had to learn with this process. How It Started Starting off in high school I was super into TikTok and all that. Wish I wasn’t though, but it did set me off on the journey I’m in today. I was watching my hours of TikTok  one day and I stumbled upon a video by Zach Yadegari showing off an unblocked games site he had made. It seemed so simple and easy to me, I’d seen people making tons of things before, but this one seemed like I could make it. I can make this I thought. Zach Yadegari I can make this Getting Started Learning web dev from nothing was hard especially since most of school had really brought killed my confidence as we had a teacher for CS that never actually taught, just showed us videos. Super sad. I had picked back up coding because of a project I made for Rust, which was a script to combat the recoil. This brought back up my confidence, and was probably the only reason I thought I could make a unblocked games site. I instantly started building my project DuckMath (a different name at the time). I quickly figured out how to get games and show them to people. It was fun to make! I was hooked. Rust Intuitively next, I needed people to use it. So I decided to use TikTok to post ads. One of the great things about entrepreneurship now is that someone has already paved a path for you. I had seen what worked with TikTok advertising an unblocked games site, so I just started posting. Videos usually did poorly, but I was consistent. I knew the more videos I posted the better I would do, so I tried getting friends on board. I went around asking & convincing my closest friends to come help. I’ll cut this part short as it has been said time and time again, but most people don’t care as much as you do, and most aren’t cut out for this life. If you find someone you are lucky. I stayed consistent posting 5 days a week, and it was growing. An unblocked games site is something so easy to advertise, and this fact was helping me tremendously. A year or so late it was stagnant. I was posting daily, site would slowly VERY slowly grow. That was my first year of college. Second half of my 2nd year of college I locked in (blog post about that coming soon), and decided to learn more about entrepreneurship in general. I read books, watched Y Combinator, until I thought I was ready. This gave me new ideas of getting more people to work for me, fostering a community, and actually thinking about the videos I was posting (following trends, being different). duckmath.org is now doing quite well and while the summer spells a bad time for revenue, I’m happy to say I’ve achieved $10K ARR from DuckMath. duckmath.org https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m273GEkKrM&embedable=true https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0m273GEkKrM&embedable=true What's Next If you liked this pls follow me everywhere. I am currently working to foster a community of people who like what I’m making. everywhere I’m currently building blogbott.com (AI blogs) & coldcallbot.com (auto cold emailing). I’m sure tomorrow I’ll have two different domains I’ll share with you. Recently it’s been a try and fail repeat, but at some point something will work. I’m sure. blogbott.com coldcallbot.com

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