I recommend the book of hard knocks.

Selling is hard. Selling is painful because rejection is painful and rejection is most of selling. Everything is easier than selling.

Looking for shortcuts, tips, and tricks is easier than selling. It feels like work, but it is not. It is just pretending and avoiding pain.

In business, selling is all that matters. Technical competence without sales equals a failing business. Selling without technical competence is a road to riches.

You can hire technical talent better than you. Build the cost into your price and mark it up for overhead and profit.

You can’t hire sales who care as much as you.

Just grinding away at sales is the simplest thing that might work. The only thing better is luck.

Good luck.

I run a side (open source) project called Iconduck (https://iconduck.com). It collects and makes open source icons, illustrations and graphics available to download in various formats.

The goal is to collect sets from across the web (atm, mainly Gumroad and GitHub) that have open source licenses that allow for them to be available on a central site.

I then use a service called Typesense (https://typesense.org/) to make these all searchable.

It's a scratch of mine that I wanted to itch, and it has pretty strong usage (along with a limited user base; around 1k signed up users).

It's a fun project to work on, and I'd love help on this. Anything from design, front-end, back-end, product or marketing.

https://www.thoughtexperiments.net/ - I write about famous thought experiments.

I only ever wrote 4 posts, but they all got very good feedback (including HN /Reddit front page). I've been meaning to get back to writing since forever.