I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)
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#2Previously:
Re: I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)
#3Cool to read. Thanks.
Re: I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)
#4Light text on light background for max pain. Still I will read it though. Frankly, I commend anyone who is willing to work long-term on massive projects by themselves like this. I find it inspiring since all my projects are like this tbh.
Seems like frameworks were a major problem for the project. I get it. Sometimes if you're too early you end up having to build not only your project but a small ecosystem of things to support it.
Here's the software they ended up making which looks frigging cool: https://signal.vercel.app/
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#5yeah, GitHub Sponsors is non-existent, impossible to get any revenues from it
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#6yeah, GitHub Sponsors is non-existent, impossible to get any revenues from it
And yet it still hurts significantly less that Patreon
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#7One time I set out to write an accounting ledger application and towards the end realized I built an ORM framework.
Neither the application nor the ORM lived on. I now start from an existing ORM framework for any new project.
Good learning!
Re: I spent five years building a webapp and got my first $1 (2022)
#8I wouldn't be who I am today without wasting years in the bike shed. Kudos!
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#9Thats cool.
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#10I remember the moment when in my last startup, the first invoice was paid - $5. A magic moment. I still remember the name of the customer. The last invoice before exit was $50.000. I remember that customer too.