I Don't Focus on Generating a Quick Profit

It's a very nice alternative to "grow or die" mentality of other startups/projects. But it only works when you are not 100% dependent on its success, so not for everyone.

"After years of disappointment with get rich quick schemes, I know I'm gonna get rich with this scheme. And quick." ~Homer Simpson.

I used to be rather besotted with IndieHackers stories but every other story was "I built X over a weekend/week/month and now I can't figure out which marina to dock my yacht on and it's hard". Being exposed to all that "success-porn" was doing a number of me cause for the life of me I couldn't think of a good idea/side-venture that hasn't been done a dozen times and would be possible to put together over a rainy weekend and which would go on to generate oodles of money. Naturally, depression ensued.

While I don't think the story above is a one-size-fits-all, is anything?, I think it's valuable to see stories about mild success and perseverance as a healthy-norm instead of expecting too much from oneself.