I think before starting any new business, it's almost mandatory to get thoughts/feedback from 3rd parties. So here's my idea:
It's basically a 5+ year plan to develop a personal brand, software/s, and community.
People are struggling more than ever with internet addiction. Younger generations have it the worst because they’ve grown up with constant internet dopamine feedback reward loops that just bombard their brain with addictions, similar to what it'd be like if you started smoking at 3 years old.
It's not even the severe debilitating forms of it I'm necessarily talking about. I'd say a significant portion of people have a mild form of internet addiction, whether it be to news, YouTube, Facebook, politics, porn, their phone, whatever.
Contrary to popular belief of “just willpower against it”, it’s actually quite difficult if you’ve struggled with spending so much time online. People are slowly starting to realize that these online platforms are basically designed to addict them for the sake of ad revenue, with AI to optimize this addiction process.
Resources have already popped up in this area. And I want to help accelerate that progress (profitably so), in a multi-pronged approach that will include the following steps.
The Steps
I know a lot of people on this forum are allergic to the whole “guru” scam artists we’ve seen around dropshipping, crypto, finance, and other areas in recent times. I am too. With a money making guru, it doesn’t really make sense why they’re selling a course/coaching when they could just be making more money scaling up their wonderful business idea. And even if their business idea works, as a result of them spreading the word it soon becomes a red ocean which nobody can make money with (doesn’t stop them from continuing to sell courses/coaching though).
With a health based coach, it’s much different because there is no incongruity as to why one would be selling courses/coaching. Also, there’s never an ironic red ocean effect created as a result of you helping others.
Breaking down the Idea per NECST:
Need – there is a need since people are really struggling with internet addiction and I’m sure a lot of them would appreciate a systematic way of killing that addiction from someone who’s been through it. The question that concerns me is whether or not there's enough people who'd become paying fans or not. There's successful coaches in the Nofap niche, but not necessarily the newer Nosurf niche yet.
There is already a Reddit community around this with 60k subscribers called reddit.com/r/nosurf (similar to /r/nofap). From the subreddit stats, it's clear Nosurf has really started gaining a lot of steam as of recent.
Entry – entry is moderately high because most internet addicts haven’t spent 2+ years intensively learning/experimenting what works and doesn’t work in terms of cutting down internet use nor have been able to successfully cut it down by 95%
Scale – YouTube/courses/software/community of course have the ability to scale
Control – Except from YouTube and minor affiliate deals, I control my brand, courses, coaching, software, community, etc
Time -- YT/ courses /software/community of course do not need to depend on time.
Here's some pilot videos I already made after revamping my old channel (not the point of this post, but if you happen to be interested, feel free to subscribe):
Video 1
Video 2
I actually do believe in what I’d be teaching, not in a guru scammy “lets get sum monayy, rented lambos on my IG babayy!” way. I myself have drastically cut down the number of hours per month I waste online. I’m probably saving 40 hours a month through the processes and knowledge I’ve accrued so far. With my knowledge and experience, I think I could help a lot of people and make a solid sustainable business out of it at the same time.
Any thoughts or feedback on this idea?
It's basically a 5+ year plan to develop a personal brand, software/s, and community.
People are struggling more than ever with internet addiction. Younger generations have it the worst because they’ve grown up with constant internet dopamine feedback reward loops that just bombard their brain with addictions, similar to what it'd be like if you started smoking at 3 years old.
It's not even the severe debilitating forms of it I'm necessarily talking about. I'd say a significant portion of people have a mild form of internet addiction, whether it be to news, YouTube, Facebook, politics, porn, their phone, whatever.
Contrary to popular belief of “just willpower against it”, it’s actually quite difficult if you’ve struggled with spending so much time online. People are slowly starting to realize that these online platforms are basically designed to addict them for the sake of ad revenue, with AI to optimize this addiction process.
Resources have already popped up in this area. And I want to help accelerate that progress (profitably so), in a multi-pronged approach that will include the following steps.
The Steps
1. Develop a personal brand (on YouTube at first, ironically) as an authority in this space. Videos will be about the best blocking softwares/configurations to use, misc techniques to avoid getting sucked in online when you’re trying to use the internet productively, answering viewer/common questions, etc. (successfully reducing internet use is more complicated than installing one internet distraction blocker and calling it a day; multi-billion dollar distraction vampire corporations do not give up that easily)
2. Affiliate links/affiliate discounts to the distraction blocking software I use and recommend in my videos.
3. Creating a dedicated forum/community away from the reddit.com/r/nosurf subreddit (based on an open source forum software like Discourse). Mainly for an obvious reason: the Nosurf subreddit is on an extremely tempting and timewasting site-- Reddit. Being the head of a community, even if small but gradually growing, would be a nice addition to the personal brand
4. Create advanced courses (price point $100-$500) to add to the free content on my channel. Also do 1 on 1 coaching. The coaching could be actually a very expansive area given that there’s so many particular different scenarios and flavors of internet addiction that people are facing, so vanilla courses may not even cover every particular case. The main selling point of courses/coaching is: time = money, therefore, you’re going to be saving so much time from my course/coaching that it will be well repaying itself.
5. Eventually, I get to a point where I have sufficient capital built up that I start throwing money at developing simple software (perhaps even partner with a software guy). Then gradually more complex and paid distraction blocking software. The current software out there is actually not that good and doesn’t cover certain things as well as it could.
6. I continue synergistically building a personal brand, paired with a community, paired with courses/coaching, paired with ever-improving software. I become a Russell Brunson of sorts (guy who founded the software clickfunnels, does all this coaching/courses on building internet sales pages, has a community around that, etc).
I know a lot of people on this forum are allergic to the whole “guru” scam artists we’ve seen around dropshipping, crypto, finance, and other areas in recent times. I am too. With a money making guru, it doesn’t really make sense why they’re selling a course/coaching when they could just be making more money scaling up their wonderful business idea. And even if their business idea works, as a result of them spreading the word it soon becomes a red ocean which nobody can make money with (doesn’t stop them from continuing to sell courses/coaching though).
With a health based coach, it’s much different because there is no incongruity as to why one would be selling courses/coaching. Also, there’s never an ironic red ocean effect created as a result of you helping others.
Breaking down the Idea per NECST:
Need – there is a need since people are really struggling with internet addiction and I’m sure a lot of them would appreciate a systematic way of killing that addiction from someone who’s been through it. The question that concerns me is whether or not there's enough people who'd become paying fans or not. There's successful coaches in the Nofap niche, but not necessarily the newer Nosurf niche yet.
There is already a Reddit community around this with 60k subscribers called reddit.com/r/nosurf (similar to /r/nofap). From the subreddit stats, it's clear Nosurf has really started gaining a lot of steam as of recent.
Entry – entry is moderately high because most internet addicts haven’t spent 2+ years intensively learning/experimenting what works and doesn’t work in terms of cutting down internet use nor have been able to successfully cut it down by 95%
Scale – YouTube/courses/software/community of course have the ability to scale
Control – Except from YouTube and minor affiliate deals, I control my brand, courses, coaching, software, community, etc
Time -- YT/ courses /software/community of course do not need to depend on time.
Here's some pilot videos I already made after revamping my old channel (not the point of this post, but if you happen to be interested, feel free to subscribe):
Video 1
Video 2
I actually do believe in what I’d be teaching, not in a guru scammy “lets get sum monayy, rented lambos on my IG babayy!” way. I myself have drastically cut down the number of hours per month I waste online. I’m probably saving 40 hours a month through the processes and knowledge I’ve accrued so far. With my knowledge and experience, I think I could help a lot of people and make a solid sustainable business out of it at the same time.
Any thoughts or feedback on this idea?
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