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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 01/09/2026

I made $1k+ in August with self-publishing! A bit of a se-back but more than I expected! I reinvested all in more book production and marketing Looking forward to the last months of the year! Full post below ⤵️

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 25/08/2026

So basically to earn 50k in Italy you gotta be Andrej Karpathy I hope I get an interview to just laugh in their faces

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 11/08/2026

A bit of drama for me in July! I made $1.6k, but I had to unpublish my best-selling book! And now I am back to $700/month ($300 profit) Already working on the future bestsellers Keep pushing! Full story below ⤵️

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 04/07/2026

📚 I made $1.8k gross ($800 profit) publishing books in June New blog! www.tropianhs.com/diary/2026/...

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 12/06/2026

I made $1.5k from self-publishing in May Margins are improving, and I am now consistently profitable month on month I will keep publishing more books, experimenting with ads and social media 2026 goal $1k in profit Next milestone $500/month profit Full blog post below ⤵️

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 12/05/2026

I have made more than $1k in gross sales in April But I had significant costs so my profits were not so great I think it's expected since I'm focusing on publishing more and more books and that compounds eventually Full write-up in the post below ⤵️

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 04/05/2026

I wrote a best-selling book about Quantum Physics for Beginners last year The ebook is free for the next 5 days Check it out if you care

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 02/05/2026

I made $1240 last month by selling books Planning to write 6 more books and reach $2k profit by the end of the year PS: I wrote 11 books but only 4 or 5 of them are selling, Pareto law in action

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 28/04/2026

Quietly made $1k gross royalties this month That was my 2026 goal I never exceeded my goals What do I do now?

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 19/04/2026

I smile every time Can't get used to nice reviews

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 07/04/2026

I made $900+ with self-publishing in March But I am reinvesting everything into production and promotion I've got to catch up for all the time I lost trying to build the wrong stuff Full story below ⤵️

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 05/04/2026

Happy Easter From me and Yuri

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 03/04/2026

Just deleted my Premium subscription after 2+ years If you are not marketing on the platform, it's just not worth it I prefer to spend it on other tools that don't suck my time and instead save me time

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 01/04/2026

March Monthly Target excedeed $1k month coming soon!

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 25/03/2026

Just published my 3rd book of 2026 This one took me a very long time to make Exhausted but happy about the result Fingers crossed now

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 22/03/2026

Strategizing my next publishing moves Big Quarter ahead

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 21/03/2026

I have already broken my ambitious target for March And there are still 10 days left until the end of the month Could maybe break the $900 mark which would be huge Let's see!

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 13/03/2026

Exactly 1 year ago I vowed to stop working on B2C ideas And the revenue from my side projects increased 4x since then But I didn't launch any B2B product I just doubled down on what was working So I guess B2C or B2B doesn't really matter What matters is focus

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 12/03/2026

You are not unemployable because you like freedom You are unemployable because you lack discipline and switch context way too often Which might work well for entrepreneurship But in general it works badly

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 11/03/2026

Just a reminder that if you have no ambitions Italy is the perfect place for you

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 07/03/2026

Worked from my favourite cafe yesterday I swear I get more shit done in w hours here than in a week working from home Magical place

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 06/03/2026

Return to profitability, the power of focus, the importance of investing and my plan for next months February has been a good month for me One of the best since I have started this blog And I feel momentum like I never did before Everything in my latest blog post ⤵️

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 05/03/2026

Controversial but I hate mortgages Most people I know find a job, get married and lock themselves in a mortgage for 30 years They can't leave their job, even if they hate it, and can't take risks for decades, in their most active years A house is not worth losing your freedom

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 04/03/2026

I failed all my 2025 goals Wanted to get to $1k MRR, barely got to $200 Then I realized that I didn't need to find something new I just needed to double down on what was already working Now at $450 MRR and the $1k goal looks much closer now

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 03/03/2026

One of things people say about Italy is that we have the lowest number of graduates in Europe The things is Italy's economy doesn't need educated people You don't need a degree to make a pizza, serve a table, drive a boat and so on

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 02/03/2026

I set a $400 target for February And I went beyond my expectations with $460 in royalties I'm almost halfway to my yearly target $1k/month Next month target $600 Gotta be ambitious

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 28/02/2026

It ain't much but it's honest shitposting

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 27/02/2026

My Quantum Physics ebook is still holding to the top spot in the Waves Mechanics category After almost 3 months since the release Absolutely crazy stuff Broke the $350 mark in royalties already Already my best month ever and there is one week left Probably will pass $400 royalties this month 🤞

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 26/02/2026

I invested in the Russian market in 2021 I lost everyhting when tensions escalated It's the same with China now A little escalation and your broker will stop trading the assets And you lose all your money If you wanna diversify buy gold, silver, crypto

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 24/02/2026

Broke the $350 mark in royalties already Already my best month ever and there is one week left Probably will pass $400 royalties this month 🤞

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 23/02/2026

True story happened to me not long ago Senior Data Engineer interview with HR Freelance contract "What's your rate?" "400/day" "Oh no too expensive..." "What's your budget?" "150/day" "..." "Ok we tried" Guess the country

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 20/02/2026

New book published Italian market only Very low competition niche Written 80% with AI $0 Production cost Took me 2-3 weeks of work almost every night I'm very tired but happy and hopeful for this one Now comes the hard part, marketing!

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 19/02/2026

Big book order just arrived I don't know where to start from but probably will read 2 or 3 in parallel Btw already checked the Space Math one Dover never fails to deliver

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 18/02/2026

Senior ML Engineer Milan vs Berlin Salary 2x more in Berlin If Europe is cooked then Italy is competely burned PS: don't tell me the cost of living is also 2x

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 17/02/2026

Just finished to write another book Two books published this year so far On track for 10 books published in 2026 Sales are strong Learning every day Life is good

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 16/02/2026

Italy has too many graduates? Too many graduates compared to the country’s economic system Which is a cross between an amusement park and a geriatrics ward Plus everybody thinks the country is the Eternal Guardian of World Culture, which doesn't help with innovation at all

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 14/02/2026

Everybody thinks cooking is a waste of time Quite the opposite My best ideas come when I slow down and spend 1 hour cooking a nice meal Saves me a lot of wasted effort and helps me go in the right direction Best ROI of the day

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 13/02/2026

Almost $200 in royalties this month And it's not even mid-February On course to $400 and a 12% increase over January Looking good

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 12/02/2026

Italian job market in a nutshell

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 11/02/2026

I wish I was like my boomer colleagues who put on a shocked face when I used to tell them the rental prices in Florence The city where they bought their homes at normal prices 30 years ago I'd give up all the technology, Ryanair, Netflix in the world to reach this level of detachment from reality

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 10/02/2026

Publishing more books, reducing costs, improving ads and looking for new marketing avenues This has been the focus of my side gigs in January Still in the red but better than December Full blog post below ⤵️

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 09/02/2026

POV: you find a book with reviews like this that makes $300/day New genre, people are starving for a sequel but it doesn't come before May I am gonna publish 3 books in the same niche in the meantime Pretty confident they will bang

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 07/02/2026

Posted my first job offer on Upwork Invited 6 freelancers who had skills 3 replied 1 of them understood the assignment He charges 3x the others You really don't need much to freelance Choose a good niche, follow instructions, you have zero competition

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 05/02/2026

This is the book that got me started on the solopreneurship journey It was 2017 I bought it in Waterstones at the Leadenhall Market in London I was still working as a Data Scientist at a startup It's been 10 years I failed a lot But I am still here Like a cockroach

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 04/02/2026

New book New #1 badge Not bad

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 03/02/2026

Record month in January on KDP 5 books $350 royalties More books = more royalties

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 02/02/2026

Please explain me where do you find time and space to work as a parent of a toddler I have a 16 months old daughter and I literally cannot work more than 30 minutes without an emergency I cannot work at all in the mornings Max I can manage is 5-10 hours per week

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 31/01/2026

Getting shit done Every day Even at 10 pm on a Saturday Even when you ran all day and are tired af Only way I know to make progress

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Antonio Tropiano @tropianhs.com · 30/01/2026

Unpopular opinion If you are depressed it's because your life has lost purpose You live to have fun, get laid, or go on holiday Find a mission and pursue it The purpose of life is not to sip a Spritz on the beach

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