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Helping Car Detailers Make Profit

perchboy
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Process and Execution

Intro:

I've been in the detailing niche (on and off) for almost 4 years now and I've had lots of success.

Detailing is a magical niche:
- $300 to clean a car
- the competition is all solo detailers doing it as a side hustle
- everyone has a car (lots of demand)
- 0 skill barrier, there is only a marketing barrier
- its a local business so you're only competing with people from your city

Almost every detailer is passionate about cars and they never make over 15k/month because they don't...

MTF's Rebirth: Building a New Fastlane Vehicle

Not that you need another opinion, but I'll chime in anyway.

It looks like you're easy to dissuade by perceived authority figures around here. All it took was another mortal and fallible man to doubt your actions, and you were quick to quit jump on to the next thing.

Which means that, at some point in time, you chose not to trust yourself. And you aren't allowing yourself to fail because you quit before it gets to that point.

So the only real feedback you're getting for your actions is...

Question on barrier to entry in software development - CENTS

The barrier to entry in software is gone, but don't be fooled -- it was simply replaced.

The barrier to entry just shifted to marketing, branding, and UX optimization.

Perhaps we can call it a "barrier to traction."

I just created an accountability app (Accountability Partners & Mentorship by MJ DeMarco, Make Better Decisions at Inspirited.com) that by all measures would have cost me nearly $500K and nearly 2 years of development time to build in 2020. With AI, it was done in less than...

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