Everything Helen Ryles said on any show that made the record, most notable first. Each card names its show and opens the statement there.
Helen Ryles: Running a full-time company quickly kills idea experimentation
“The fastest way to stop making and testing new ideas is to have your time taken up by a full-time, full-time company really.”
Helen Ryles builds side projects to see ideas exist, not scale
“I build side projects because I want to see my ideas exist, not necessarily because I want to run them like long term as particular businesses.”
Helen Ryles: Sell side projects while they still have growth potential
“I think a lot of people maybe leave a product until it's kind of fizzling out, and I would rather sell something while it has potential to become a bigger Bigger thing. So I tend to like sell my projects with even like a list of marketing ideas and a list of w…”
Helen Ryles: No-code tools let creators deploy prototype apps within hours
“The speed of which you can prototype something Is incredible. You know, you can go from nothing to an app on a hundred people's phones in a couple of hours. I think just that speed of prototyping is a big seller of the no code tools”
Helen Ryles builds most of her side projects without custom code
“Some are custom coded apps. Some I have done some coding for, some that I've hired developers for as well. So I'd say the large majority are probably no code related or kind of using existing tools to build something new really.”
Helen Ryles: Side project skills snowball to make idea validation easier
“The skills that you learn from one definitely snowball into the next one, and it gets easier to spot ideas and trends and patterns and pick up on ideas and collect evidence for a project that you think has a better chance of succeeding.”
Helen Ryles: Glide turns Google Sheets into native-feeling apps in minutes
“You can take a Google sheet full of data and layouts and turn that into a progressive web app that feels like a native app on your phone in literally minutes.”
Helen Ryles: The no-code ecosystem still lacks viable browser extension builders
“There's definitely lots of room for improvement in the no code space. There's lots of interesting things that people are waiting to be launched. Things like browser extensions and things that kind of push the boundaries of things that can be templated.”
Helen Ryles's physical card deck side project peaked at $1,800 MRR
“So I think at one point the card deck, which I've now sold was at its highest point, I think was about 1800 dollars a month. That was on a physical product.”
Helen Ryles's Podwords project peaked at roughly $2,000 monthly recurring revenue
“I think, you know, I've had pod words. I think it's highest had around five or six recurring clients with about, you know, a couple of thousand dollars a month, MRR.”
Helen Ryles built a recurring transcription business using Carrd and Stripe
“I built a transcription business using CARD integrated with the Stripe to take recurring payments, insert tables and videos, and you can go from zero to one really quickly, and there's lots of useful templates out there that help people to build something that…”
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