Sup reddit,

    I’m an engineer and I’m developing my second big product – further and further, but I am fed up with where I’m living. I’m living in a 100€/mo community housing in the middle of nowhere and I want to move to warmer, sunny places. Also, I have troubles in this house.

    A year ago I’ve self-taught engineering and engineered my first big product as described in my story. I’ve self-taught sales in my previous ventures and sold a little B2C, but never exceeded 10-20$/hr because I was selling washing windows… in a village.

    After engineering three versions of the product I’ve dropped it to start what I’m working on today. It's particularly difficult to make artificial intelligence, and if I’m doing what I’m doing the world as we know it would start to change very fast. (not general intelligence, but even more badass imo)

    So I have the skills of:

    1. A year of mechanical and a little electronics engineering
    2. Software development (about 6mo)
    3. Sales which I’d learn and cold call. High-ticket B2C or B2B. 

    And with neither of those I can’t prove to potential buyers (companies) that I’ve worked with them. Because:

    1. Mecheng, my product never got manufactured (because I’ve switched to another product – I don’t need or want your cringe btw)
    2. Software I have no experience except a job in which I’ve got kicked out (they’ve found me doing entrepreneurship when I should’ve worked, hahaha), then started a “startup” website and after 4 months it failed (I’ve never created such products ever after; it was dead before I started)
    3. Sales – well, I’ve called a bunch of people including websites like CommissionCrowd which is a commission-only sales, but with most sales cycles (months), I don’t have time to commit to that much – I have my AI to engineer. Further, most products there are pretty garbage like 100500th leadgen agency or endless cybersecurity companies or whatnot.. Which operate in markets so crowded very few of them get clients at all… Even if I’m putting out my 12-14 hours a day I usually work with their products… I don’t know if my wage would exceed $10-20/hr I’m doing window-cleaning, which… What the fuck, I’m doing such ultra-high-value activities – which, for example, probably not a single reader of this message does and then I’m going to sell it for 10$/hr activities?

    And with sales – before I've discovered starting tech companies I’ve started and failed 5-10 businesses, even before I was 17… And I know better than to sell garbage products like the websites… Wasted my time doing it before.

    I am not money-chasing, I AM able AND willing to provide value more than anything I want to do. 

    I want to provide 5k value in the span of 1-3 weeks (my work week is intense 14-16/7), and move to Dubai to finish my venture there.

    I can’t get a job either because nobody ever wants nobody for a couple of weeks. 

    Where can I plug my intense work in so I can earn this in such period? Get a couple of domains, blast a couple of thousands B2B emails of good copy (I can write good copy)? It will be spam-blocked pretty fast.

    Thanks everyone.

    I’m skilled but nobody cares or sees it – how to bootstrap?
    byu/JustZed32 inEntrepreneur



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    1. NewRealityDreamer on

      Is your question ‘basically’ “how do I get 5K in 1-3 weeks with availability of 14-16 hrs/day?

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