30×500 Academy
We're Amy & Alex. We created and teach 30x500. Ask us anything.
For the last 5 years, we've been teaching this course to people who want to quit trading their time for money (freelancers, consultants, employees) and start earning a living by creating and selling products.
At 3pm Eastern on Friday, Sept 25th, we'll be here on this page answering YOUR questions.
Here's what that time SHOULD be in a few major time zones to help you calibrate, and check against your local. Sorry about Any time-zone confusion!
- 12pm - San Francisco
- 3pm - NYC
- 7pm - GMT
You can ask us anything about products and launching and sales, questions about your audiences and existing products, questions about copywriting and marketing, questions about your motivation and ability to JFS. Questions about competition and time and habits. We'll do our best to answer as many questions as we can.
Our detailed bios are down below, too!
We'll be here live answering questions for an hour or so, starting at 3pm, but the best way to get YOUR question answered is to post it below, now, before we begin. Try to be specific!
You'll have to register below to post your question, and if you see a question you really want answered, upvote it to the top!
Your Brick Stacking Teachers
Since 2010, we have taught nearly 1000 students from around the world how to build and launch a product busines. In the last two years alone, our students have collectively earned over $3 million. We keep our skills sharp and practice what we preach outside of 30×500:
Amy Hoy
Freckle Time Tracking, Just Fucking Ship, Unicorn Free
Amy quit her last (very cushy) job in 2007, opened up a consultancy for Fortune 100 companies, and then threw that all out the window to start a product biz after procrastinating for years. Freckle has earned over $1.9MM in it's lifetime, and her tech ebooks & workshops have earned >$200k.
Her hard-earned lessons in bootstrapping - delivered with her trademark bullshit-free honesty - has helped countless people get off their butts and ship.
Alex Hillman
Indy Hall Coworking, GroupBuzz Discussions, dangerouslyawesome.com
Alex founded Indy Hall in 2006 while he was still a freelance web developer, and has grown it into one of the world's first, and longest running coworking spaces. Since, he's midwifed many products and businesses including his most recent, a discussion list for tight-knit communities called GroupBuzz.
Many credit Alex with their starts, citing his non-nonsense credo “JFDI” (just effing do it) as a source of inspiration to stop with the excuses and, well, JFDI.
We also organize an annual sold-out conference in Philadelphia for the product bootstrapper community called BaconBizConf. Come meet a communty of your peers at the next event!