Hey friends,
This week I set myself a challenge to create a digital product that I can sell online in under a week. I spend hundreds—if not thousands—of hours revising for my medical school exams. I created a huge archive of notes, and they've been collecting dust since.
Let's put them to use and make them into a business.
Challenge 1: the name. Given that my target audience is University students, I went for: "Don't F*ck Finals". That should grab some attention.
Challenge 2: create a website from my Notion notes. I used the company super.so. Photoshop mockups (like the iPad below) make the site look so much more professional, and it only takes a few minutes to throw together. After 4 hours of experimenting, the site was done.
Challenge 3: gather payments and track memberships. I found that Memberspace was designed with this exact intention. 1 hour of work, and the logistical side was boxed off.
Take a look at the finished product at www.dontfckfinals.com.
This has been a great exercise in converting an idea into a product. Notion, Super and Memberspace made the process so easy. I hope these resources might be useful to you! Side hustles don't take as much time as you think, if you've had an idea I encourage you to give it a try.
Have a great week!
- Jack
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The guards were surrounded by cues that reinforced their superiority; a set designed to disengage their sense of morality. This guard role overpowered their personality. Over a few days, they garnered a sense of disgust towards the prisoners, and were so cruel to the volunteers that they had to stop the experiment early.
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"Don't do anything with anyone sexually that you wouldn't talk to them about"
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