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The $61,392 Book Launch That Let Me Quit My Job

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Last May I released my first digital product, a book called "Refactoring to Collections" that teaches PHP developers how to use functional programming ideas to write cleaner code. Within the first three days it generated $61,392 in revenue and gave me the confidence to quit my day job and work on my own ideas full-time. Here's the whole story, from idea to launch. I've always loved the feeling of creating something neat and polished and putting it out into the world; whether that be video game walkthroughs with ASCII art titles when I was 8 years old, or sophisticated training spreadsheets when I was competing in powerlifting. One of the spreadsheets I spent too much time on at the peak of my powerlifting career. So when I started getting more passionate about programming, writing a book was something that really excited me. But after a bunch of false starts, it started to feel like I was never going to follow through; it just seemed too ambitious. One day I noticed that a friend of mi

Last May I released my first digital product, a book called "Refactoring to Collections" that teaches PHP developers how to use functional programming ideas to write cleaner code. Within the first three days it generated $61,392 in revenue and gave me the confidence to quit my day job and work on my own ideas full-time. Here's the whole story, from idea to launch. Finding an Idea Feb 16, 2016 – The Conversation That Got Things Started I've always loved the feeling of creating something neat and polished and putting it out into the world; whether that be video game walkthroughs with ASCII art t

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