Let me solve your business problem

The first question. Why are you stuck in that low level job? There are a couple of options I can think of:
1. Your company is ran by a-holes who promote people based on their ass-kissing skill and not on their actual talent and hardwork and work ethics.
2. You are lazy and always do exactly what needs to be done and never show initiative to grab your superiors' attention so you can press them for promotions or a raise.
3. Your company is struggling and they can't afford to give you neither a raise nor a promotion.
So you will have to change yourself or the company. Obviously, don't just quit your job. But do hunt for a similar position in a better company or do better where you are and aim to improve your position there.
Don't fall for the wagecage meme. Some employees make way more money than some business owner. The tradeoff is your freedom but getting a good salary so you can either dca into big boys like eth or btc, or save enough money to start your own business.
Side hustles is a double edged sword for a family man. You do need the extra cash. But it will be on the expanse of spending less quality time with your family.
This is why my advice revolve around improving your current position. It can only be done by working harder and attempting to aquire a new skills in your free time that could open new and better possibilities for you as a wagie.
What about immigration. Can you get the same position in a different country where the pay is better? Have you tried networking to explore this possibility.

would you sell a product that sells in one country but doesnt exist in the other but not because of the culture or anything

Your question is vague. I will sell a product even in a single town if it's turning decent profit. If you are not happy with the sales. You need to find the problem in your current market before trying to penetrate a new market/country.
Are you doing enough marketing? Are you getting enough feedback from clients so you can improve the product in order to make it appeal to more people? Is there a supply chain problem?
Improve your sales in the current country and when it all fails, try the new country by sending out free samples and and asking for feedback. There is a method to penetrate new markets. You can't just throw your product at them.

thank you well that sounds very hard.

It only sounds hard because of the term I'm using. It is very doable. Don't give up, anon. You already have a business and a valid product. Push harder.

I'm that guy and run a small company of those guys. How are you looking for people and what are you trying to get them to do?

hire me ?

or anyone else for that matter. hire me!

I want to partner with my wife and open a pain management clinic.

Her: Physician, will be board certified + accredited fellowship within ~1.5 years.

Me: Background in Healthcare/Business (Corporate). Just broke six fig ($100k), couple years out of grad school but do not like looming threat of layoffs always hanging over my head.

Intent:

Not run an Opioid pump n dump clinic and treat pain in an ethical manner.

Make monies.

Issues:

Capital/Startup Costs: How to secure funding? Do we need to save up to purchase our own equipment/lease it? Would be operating in LCOL state, potentially rural outside of city to further reduce cost and less competition business-wise.

Partner with others? Would lower overhead and initial startup costs but profit distribution would be lower as well.

Work done so far:

Spoke to local physicians who run clinics, some are very unethical and will just give people what they want, will purposefully let symptoms get worse to then provide more costly injections and procedures.

Researched smaller areas where less competition would garner higher patient population. Roughly 30-45 minutes out of city. Couple other people do this but with more hospice type care.

Would love to get some ideas, have never run a business myself but I do want to break away from this unstable corpo life.

I am too comfy in my WFH job that I don't have to do much work for, but I am only paid an average wage.
I am too tired and mentally ill to learn anything new or new skills and be a positive interesting person in interviews, probation periods, etc, and defiantly don't want to return to an office.
I don't spend anything either though, so I am in this weird limbo of being "poor but doing ok" that I don't know how to break out of.

You are your own limiting factor here. Use your free time to explore.
What tool/skill/program interests you? Find a nice YT video / playlist and take time to learn. Learning anything takes time and pushing past discomfort. The choice is yours to make, return to office is increasingly becoming the norm for many companies and the job market is unruly -- hedge your bets and do the hard but longer term better thing for yourself and spend even 30 mins regularly to learn new things.

Keep your job, do your work and try to do it well but utilize that time to develop new skills that you can take to leverage a higher paying job.

You are likely bored due to your work being too easy. See image.

Interviewing is just about being someone others imagine themselves working with. Who you are at work doesn't have to be your true self, nor imo should it be.

I am too tired and mentally ill to learn anything new or new skills and be a positive interesting person in interviews,

First of all, the other anon gave you a very solid advice and you are indeed your own limiting factor. However, the other anon also underestimate how hard are the psychological shackles around you that stopping you from making any progress to improve your situation. So you need to take baby steps to break free eventually.
First, improve your pain tolerance. People trapped in such limbos are mainly suffering from low pain tolerance. They can't bear any sorts of discomfort, even interviewing, or learning a new skill. Start working out in the most basic form, taking a morning walk every day. When you get comfortable doing it. Start doing more. Also cold showers. These two will prime your brain to be ok with pain. They will a magical effect on your for the rest of the day and you will feel it.
Second, keep a diaries. But not the usual one. A diary where you right everyday about past moments in your life where you felt more energized and satisfied. We tend to forget how life was before limbo and our brain accept the new reality as a permanent status. Which is just an illusion to keep us away from discomfort.
Third, reconnect. You can't make interviews but you can try and call old friends, colleagues, relatives. Chose those who are not judgmental at first. The ones you know they accept you as you are. Human connections revive our sense of worth and boost our confidence. If the only feedback we're getting is from our own introspection we tend to be harsh and unfair. A second opinion if the form of casual human interactions will provide healthier feedback.
I won't bombard you with more instructions. If you actually do these ones, things will take care of themselves. Use Xeffect cards to create these new habits. Google it.
Sorry, one last thing, find your "why." Print something that symbolizes it. And hang it on your wall.

Congratulation for taking this brave step.
A couple of questions:
Will the business still be profitable if it's ethical in a field where it seems everyone is being unethical?
Can you actually compete with unethical clinics. Most clients will most likely remain loyal to those who simply gave them what they want, not what they need.
I'm not discouraging you. I'm simply reminding you to consider those challenges and think ahead before facing them.
Can you secure a loan to start your business?
Can you afford to sell any valuable property you have to fund the project?
If there is no other way to fund the project except by bringing in an investor, don't let the fear of profit distribution hinder your quest for one. Many businesses start this way. You just need to be a good negotiator and find someone who isn't too greedy and fully believe in your cause. Aim for someone who already suffered from chronic pain or know someone dear to him that did. Give him a good pitch and a good demonstration of your partner skills.
Have you calculated how much you would need to start the business? Is it possible to be patient a couple more years and save enough to start on your own? Sometimes simply being patient save you a lot of headaches.
Meanwhile, would it be feasible to start a tiktok/insta/yt account where you provide tricks for people to manage pain more efficiently? It could build a client base for you before you even start. And give you a feel of the market.
Can you hold events legally to educate people about pain management for free? Especially in those areas you said would garner higher patient population.
In nutshell find a way to provide a taste of what your clinic will be capable of for free to people to gain visibility and maybe even pick the interest of potential investors.

That's me op. Forgot to enter the name.

I have an idea for a product, and the means to develop it. but i have no idea how to gauge the market's interest.

the product is something i would like to use personally, but would not invest in the capacity to mass produce at the outset.

i am concerned that if i attempted to go commerical before having the capacity to fill orders, a competitor would simply steal my idea and take the market.

The fear of ideas being stolen in business is almost irrational. Remember how apple claimed the innovation of touch screen when iphone was first introduced? They stole the idea. And many such cases in business history.
You either spend some money to patent it ahead and get a piece of mind. Or you put your idea out there and hope to react fast and efficient enough to maintain control of the market. You know the product better than anyone. You have a head start.
About not wanting to risk money to mass produce before you get a feel of the market. How about making prototypes and sending them for influencers interested in that niche to review. You can have a kickstarter or fundme campaign to see how supportive people would be for the product.
Remember, that the experience itself will be very rewarding even if everything go to shit. Most people don't take any steps because they focus on guaranteed success. Well, there is no such thing. To be successful, you need to commit to your idea and be willing to sacrifice time and resources -in a reasonable manner- and accept that you could fail and that learning from the experience and knowing how things work in real life is enough return for your perceivably lost investment.
Sadly, the majority will just have nothing but great ideas on the shelves their whole life.

my board game designs (2 player strategy) have a niche audience. I'm unsure if I should keep building them or switch into more consumable, mass market style games (unbalanced eurogames)

okay so about that. i started a project in robotics and started a youtube channel however the project is too big in scope. i went hard for 6 months and then kind of got burn out. i think that if i finished it i would have no means to profit out of it so i kind of lost interest. should i keep at it or should i focus on something else?
if i kept at it i might finish it in like 4-5 years from now and im not young. its also frustrating because i cant see myself ever being able to form a team and i might not be able to finish it still.

Hello magical anon

I work 2 shit WFH jobs total bring a month <$1000 but i am westerner in low cost country so its fine.

I am moving to a very sanctioned country soon one problem with this is i loose one job.

How do I get wfh that pays >$2000 a month pays in crypto
(I don’t know coding) but still strong in thee ways of the internet coin

How did people react to it on your yt channel?
Have you started working on a different project after you stopped working on that robotics thing?
Do you have a better use of your time than working on this project for another 5 years?
Have you tried networking to see if any company would be interested in supporting the project?
Sometimes it's okay to put aside our pet project if it seems like a bite too big too chew on our own. So we shelve it, till the circumstances are better to tackle it again. However, if you have no other project to focus on, I don't see the harm of you spending your free time on the project for another 5 years even if you are not young. I can't give a definitive answer to this because there is a lot of variables unknown to me at this point that could totally change my perception of the situation.

I have no real info on the job market that pays high in crypto and require no coding skills. You have to put your skills on display and be extremely proactive in your job hunting. You could start your own thread on Anon Babble where you post more details about your skills, experience, education and allow other anons of this board to point you at the right direction. Or post a [for hire] thread on Anon BabbleJobs4Bitcoins showcasing the aforementioned info about your career.

thank you yeah maybe if i was younger in a tech hub city and was in college and networking while working on the thing or something other than that it seems wildly optimistic i think.

I built a solution to a problem commonly faced by a certain type of large bureaucracy. I made a business, got a client, proved it worked, made $$$. I then spent over a year failing to get a second client. I'm currently applying for jobs where I'd be implementing other people's (worse) solutions to the same problem. Help?

Hey biz, it's the one and only one. I created bitcoin and pretty much a whole multi-billion dollar industry. I want my money now though instead of waiting. Advice?

My business partner and I are dissolving but he said I can have the domain and he’ll get it to me soon. Now he’s saying he didn’t actually renew it and doesn’t have the login credentials for the platform company anyway.

the one who informed you they was finna tell your wife you had an affair. This one company I'd like to be working on as a full-time that I co-founded in high school owes me a position. Lawyer, Hacker, PI, or Gang warfare? They seem to think they can just put their fingers in their ears and go "lalalala" and pretend they don't have to keep our agreement.

Why the worse solutions seems to be more appealing to clients than yours? You must have made a comparison of sort between them by now.
What was the potential clients' reasons to reject your solution when you were marketing it and failing to convert any of them?
Was there a special relationship out of business scope between you and your only clients?
Would it be feasible to create some sort of hybrid solution from your original one and the ones you are now applying for jobs to use?
I need to know more to give you a useful answers. But generally speaking, some business men are great at creating solution but they fail at marketing them properly or in some cases refuse to adapt to the needs of the markets and clients because they are too stubborn and wholeheartedly reject the notion that the client is always right.

kek. What are you waiting for exactly? And how much money do you need really?

If the domain is not renewed, it means it was put back for sale. You can buy it again, or make an offer for whoever bought it after you failed to renew it.
And how did you not notice the domain going down? Aren't you frequently checking the platform?
Who was responsible for maintaining the platform and updating it. He must have the credentials and who paid for the hosting. Can't you contact the hosting website and ask them to send the credentials again if you still have access to the main email used?

Do you have anything that bind them to the agreement except a word of mouth?

When the blockchain completes I get my portion for collecting the sybil bounty, etc. I could probably take care of myself with just $1m but that would be selfish. I need atleast $1b of my funds to cover the security costs and to pay my hand holders.

Yeah, the binding contract was written and essentially I still have the harddrives/cellphone/worddocs/cellphone numbers all verifying we did it. Even text messages. We're supposed to be starting right about now that [major entertainment industry drama] is happening. The agreement was after this event had occurred. The women still want my seed like crazy though so it seems like a workplace hazard if they don't take no for an answer.

also the [redacted] agent showed up talking about slamming her slizz all over my shizz and the [redacted] agent has been compensated. They said investigation process should end soon on the mapleleafhacker. Not sure if I can trust them but it's just like the big bro said down to a t. swish.

Rap group is pretty much in the profit every drop and I haven't even been on the albums directly yet. So all of it, every single last bit has been profitable. I have been better off than last time we talked (buy nintendo puts) and the down time gave me plenty of time to get closer to Jesus and the Almighty. No more oneitis.

feels good man, I'm grateful I got to meet you all. it set my head straight.

f the domain is not renewed, it means it was put back for sale. You can buy it again, or make an offer for whoever bought it after you failed to renew it.

And how did you not notice the domain going down? Aren't you frequently checking the platform?
Who was responsible for maintaining the platform and updating it. He must have the credentials and who paid for the hosting. Can't you contact the hosting website and ask them to send the credentials again if you still have access to the main email used?
It’s hard to tell who owns the domain currently. I’ve tried to see if it’s for sale somewhere but couldn’t find anything.

I didn’t notice the domain going down because we never set up the site. I’ve been bugging him for the better part of this year and he kept saying soon. I don’t have access to the email.

I was thinking about calling squarespace and asking about the status of the domain. Not sure what else to do. I really liked the name and think if I can get it that domain I’ll be successful.

domain

Also, it’s weird cuz he let me take over the LLC name (same as website name) but hasn’t given me the domain yet. I can’t tell if he’s just incompetent with computers or if this is a malicious thing. But he bought the domain on his own just before we met up. I have no way to get any info about it really.

Can't you just use whois.com to check its status like right now and see who owns it?

No because it’s all obscured for privacy. The organization says instagram though, which I’ve thought is odd and was pretty sure it used to say either google or squarespace

What does it say about: registered on, updated on, expires on. I don't think these field are obscured for privacy too.

Those are all the expected dates.
Registered on 04/03/2024
Renewed 05/04/2025
Expires 04/03/2026

It looks like it was renewed one day after what was possibly an expiration window. I was bugging him about the expiration was approaching and he said he did it though. I’m gonna be so pissed if it less legit lost

Looks like squarespace gives you a 45 day grace period so it should stilll be under his control. But I recall being concerned that the ‘organization’ field changed to ‘instagram’ (forgot what it was originally. It’s ‘instagram’ with a lower case ‘I’.

renewed 05/04/2025

Now he’s saying he didn’t actually renew it

Hmm. Can you confront him about it in a polite manner? If you didn't renew it? Who did?

I’ve been nagging him (politely) for the better part of a year now. My last text to him was telling him that the ICANN Whois showed it was renewed on time (no response). I’ve point blanked asked him in person if he would like me to stop asking and that it’s totally cool if he wants to keep the domain, I’d understand. But he always replies by saying no sorry I’ll get it to you soon, just been busy etc.

I’m completely exhausted for options of how to interact with it at this point. I’ve offered to just buy it too. It’s just weird cuz when he announced he’s moving out of state he said I could have everything, the LLC, the domain, the customers etc. And I have everything but the domain now.