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What if we started with a product idea for which we know there is demand for: things people are already paying money for. For example: apples, or tires, or etc. something you know people are paying money for. and then try and either build that product or another product that makes building the product easier.
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> Otherwise you spend your whole life chasing something that will probably never happen, and avoiding better opportunities. I'm also have a decent graveyard of domains. I've all but accepted that I'll never create anything of value in my life or even anything awesome. But the dark side of that is now there's no point to being alive, so I'm planning to die. What are these better opportunities you referenced? Anything…
A life is still worth living even if you never make anything of value or awesome. Find something you don’t understand at all, and feels impossible, and try to understand it. Repeat until you die or find something else you want to do.
A life without side projects seems pointless, but at the same time the projects are probably ultimately pointless or of too slow progression to merit career leverage.
I seem to have found a path too late in life. Catchup or die seems to be transforming solely into die.
I have now reached the point where I won’t buy the domain name until I get a prototype ready. I’ve only bought one domain name since then and got the project out! I think the domain name is your reward for finishing your minimum viable product.
> I won’t buy the domain name until I get a prototype ready. Me too. I learnt it after 6 expired domains
There's one Peter Levels, and I don't even think he's actually Peter Levels. I think he's a dude who went viral, so now anything he does gets traffic. ALWAYS, it comes down to one thing. If you built the best thing in the world, and no one visits it, then it's a "failure" at least in terms of earning anything.
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A life is still worth living even if you never make anything of value or awesome. Find something you don’t understand at all, and feels impossible, and try to understand it. Repeat until you die or find something else you want to do.
This is mostly what I do, and it's how I got into and continue to progress in tech from an unrelated degree. But I realize that it's unlikely I'll ever outpace the competition as a late 30s father, so my career progression and earnings seem somewhat terminal. A life without side projects seems pointless, but at the same time the projects are probably ultimately pointless or of too slow progression to merit career lev…
Then it came down to producing customers not artifacts and I ran out of steam. I posted on Product Hunt and a few other places but never took it further. I'm glad I did it once as a solo dev, but now I know how far I'll go on my own.
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This is mostly what I do, and it's how I got into and continue to progress in tech from an unrelated degree. But I realize that it's unlikely I'll ever outpace the competition as a late 30s father, so my career progression and earnings seem somewhat terminal. A life without side projects seems pointless, but at the same time the projects are probably ultimately pointless or of too slow progression to merit career lev…
Even if a side project were successful, in time it would also be pointless.
The question is then reduced to the expected value of success achieved at some point, discounted by how close it is to my stastical life expectancy. Is it positive? Seemingly not. Then I ask what's the point of a life with negative expected value?
It seems like lots of people believe that life itself is a positive, so even a mean existence is worthy. This isn't something I'm able to accept for whatever reason, as I consider life to be EV+ only when it is one, if not two, standard deviations above the mean.
It helps devs build parallel agents from the cli. (think claude code, gemini, aider)
And simplifies the git workflow for testing and accepting the best solution.
Check it out: https://github.com/sutt/agro
I keep a little text file pr.txt and try to link my project to HN / X / other aggregators once a day...
This way I spend a few hours each day coding, and a few minutes each day promoting and refining me message.