๐ŸŽ™ How They Did It

Ilya Novohatskyi

Founder, Microns.io

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$1.9k/Month
2021
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Ukraine

Building a Micro-Acquisitions Marketplace Making $22k/Year

๐Ÿ‘‹ Hi Ilya!ย Can you tell us a bit about yourself?

I started my journey in tech as a front-end dev seven years ago. Since then, I have tried stuff like back-end development, design, management, and blogging. These activities helped me start my first business (a front-end agency) when I was fired from my job in 2019.

๐Ÿง What are you working on right now?

I'm currently work on Microns, a marketplace, newsletter, and community of online tech entrepreneurs buying and selling micro-startups. We help people to invest in profitable projects for free. It's a complex business because it includes two sides - buyers and sellers.

Overall I spend around 30 hours per week working on this project. However, my biggest motivation is my customers and my team. For these people, I recently rejected a $70k offer from England buyer who wanted to acquire Microns.

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๐ŸŽฏ How did you find your first customers?

To get my first newsletter subscribers, I used Twitter and Indie Hackers. It wasn't hard because you immediately get support when you start engaging with others and sharing what you're doing.

๐Ÿš€ How are you finding customers today?

Sponsoring other founders and creators. Sharing interesting stories from our sellers and buyers. Building things that our customers are asking for and just doing a great job which results in WOM.

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What's one book or podcast you'd recommend? ๐Ÿ“š

Make book and MFM podcast.

What's the first thing you do when you wake up? ๐ŸŒป

Checking my emails.

What's one piece of advice you'd give an aspiring founder? ๐Ÿ‘ป

Never give up and constantly improve yourself. It could be small steps, but you should do something every day.

What's the best way people can learn more about you? ๐Ÿฃ

Subscribe to the Microns newsletter.

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