For every remoteok.io which is a single PHP file and makes $100k a month, there are 1000 of failed job boards. I suppose this is the reality.
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#12It wouldn't surprise me if that's far below the average number of "failures" to face before any sort of success anyone, regardless of their aptitude or luck will be met. All I see among people who make it is that they spent years trying things, they won't tweet every disappointment .
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#13"Get a Product Job (May 2020 - May 2021)
This time the main objective was to learn something new by doing. I chose Ruby on Rails. It's a great framework to build websites quickly."
Choosing Roby on Rails in 2020 as a "new framework" for web development ... sheesh.
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#14It's ok to fail sometimes, but if you only fail the only way for you to stop failing is to be lucky. It doesn't seem like a good strategy to me.
But yeah if the goal of OP is the guy he quoted at the end "Had a business idea that I think could build in 24 hours and get to $5,000 MRR in 30 days". Keep trying, survivor bias is still alive
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#15All these have a thing in common: he gave up because they weren’t immediate successes. Some even had traction: 5 users in 3 months isn’t the incredible outlier story you hear time and time again, but it’s 5 people you can talk to, listen to what they want (and why they signed up anyway), then you gear up from there.
We’re too conditioned to believe in the stories of immediate success and MVPs making tens of thousands of dollars immediately. Those are exceedingly rare, and you might be able to pull it off when you have a massive audience. Jumping from project to project won’t net you that audience, so you end up spending time in circles… and earning $0.
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#16Just get a web site ready for the next time a ship gets stuck.
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#17For every remoteok.io which is a single PHP file and makes $100k a month, there are 1000 of failed job boards. I suppose this is the reality.
There it simply becomes a marketing project not a software project.
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#18My 10 year project (a computer-geometry-art thing) (yes, 10 years, 1 project) was a great success. I made zip cash. But that was not the aim of the project. http://www.fleen.org/generative-art/
If you don't, you could consider posting some of your art to reddit.com/r/generative or to instagram. It's a really popular concept right now, although a bit plagued with people jumping on the NFT train trying to make money with generative "drops".
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#19“I have not failed 10,000 times — I’ve successfully found 10,000 ways that will not work.” — Thomas Edison
Alessandro Cruto, Alexander Nikolayevich Lodygin, James Bowman Lindsay, Nikola Tesla, and many others have different opinion on said quote.
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#20"Get a Product Job (May 2020 - May 2021) This time the main objective was to learn something new by doing. I chose Ruby on Rails. It's a great framework to build websites quickly." Choosing Roby on Rails in 2020 as a "new framework" for web development ... sheesh.
I'm not a RoR developer, but still: which framework would you use for a new web project in 2021?