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#007 – Building an Open-Source Publishing Platform That Makes $63,000/mo with John O'Nolan of Ghost

Indie Hackers

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Do You Really Want to Be a Millionaire?

The happiness curve of how income affects your actual happiness flatlines above about $100,000 a year. In SAS terms, you can build a business that makes 150k a year pretty easily and achieve all the things you want to achieve. What I optimize for constantly is more time, more freedom and more happiness. And those things in aggregate feel really, really good to me. If we just take away those things as goals, what is the end result? It would simply be something that exists in a pure independent form by itself.

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