<story><title>The 10k Bootstrap Challenge</title><url>http://bootstrapchallenge.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarky07</author><text>I did this about a year ago. It took me about 2 months to get self sustaining and 6 months to reach my previous salary. Been thinking about writing it up, maybe I should go ahead and do it.&lt;p&gt;Good luck, living off income from things you make is a great thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>clarky07</author><text>Since so many asked for it I decided to knock it out. Here&apos;s my story - &lt;a href=&quot;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3982830&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3982830&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>The 10k Bootstrap Challenge</title><url>http://bootstrapchallenge.com/</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>clarky07</author><text>I did this about a year ago. It took me about 2 months to get self sustaining and 6 months to reach my previous salary. Been thinking about writing it up, maybe I should go ahead and do it.&lt;p&gt;Good luck, living off income from things you make is a great thing.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>masanqi</author><text>Please do. Sounds like it could be very helpful.</text></comment>