So I'm writing this book based on my experience with launching web applications with absolutely no budget. I'm calling it The $10 Startup. Here's the pitch:
The reason I'm writing this book is not so much the need for recognition or money: I'm doing it to see if Leanpub works. Leanpub intends to change book publishing by allowing you to apply lean principles to book publishing, you're "self-publishing a book while still writing it". The argument is that a book is much like a startup and hence "lean" applies.
The minimum viable product for my book is a cover design and a blurb so... the lean approach is working so far. Now for the really important question...would you buy this book and how much would you pay for it?
Think you need a business plan and venture capital to get your web application off the ground? Wrong. All you need is $10. Not monthly, not yearly. $10 Total. The $10 Startup will show you how to build and deploy web applications on a non-existent budget from start to finish step by step. In addition to enforcing a bootstrapper's mindset from day 1, The $10 Startup will help you validate your web application idea quickly and cheaply before scaling.
The minimum viable product for my book is a cover design and a blurb so... the lean approach is working so far. Now for the really important question...would you buy this book and how much would you pay for it?
Unanimously, I would love to buy such a book for exactly $10 translating to roughly to INR. 550. On a side note, it requires some explaining that $10 is the amount for starting off exclusive or inclusive of social wealth the person may have. That could includes contacts at right places, good advise, programming skills, domain knowledge. Those unaccounted advantages may take you a long way.
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