Good Look Gamer

On Launching An Online Store While Recovering From An Illness At Home

October 20th, 2019
Dennis Michels
Founder, Good Look Gamer
$2K
revenue/mo
1
Founders
1
Employees
Good Look Gamer
from Brielle, South Holland, The Netherlands
started January 2018
$2,000
revenue/mo
1
Founders
1
Employees
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Hello! Who are you and what business did you start?

Hello, my name is Dennis Michels, I run Good Look Gamer, a webstore for modern board and card games. Our products vary greatly, as new games are released daily. We take a lot of pre-orders for upcoming games, sometimes months before they are released.

My customers mainly consist of adults who enjoy the challenge of a board game, competing with friends and family or cooperating in reaching a shared goal for fun or glory :)

Our turnaround currently is around $1600 per month, and we’re still growing.

What's your backstory and how did you come up with the idea?

The start of this adventure was during a bad time in my life. I had gotten ill and was housebound for months, with no hope of returning to my regular job as an audio/video technician. I was really afraid I would never get better and would lose my job and my income. During this period I was also getting back into my old hobbies of reading comic books and enjoying board/card games to keep me occupied and take my mind off things.

Me and my wife had fantasized and discussed starting our own...

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