Yeah, it's the Four-Hour Work Week thing. All you need is a business model which requires neither time nor energy and you're fucking DONE. So many lazy thinkers

Yeah, it's the Four-Hour Work Week thing. All you need is a business model which requires neither time nor energy and you're fucking DONE. So many lazy thinkers on a site like this. I never said I was starting businesses that require time or energy. I said I was starting businesses. Period, the end. Apart from anything else, say for the sake of argument that it just offends your sense of logic to put together a business which requires time and energy, when you know business models exist which don't require much time or energy. Just assume, for the sake of argument, that it horrifies you to your core, this insane idea of wasting your precious moments on this earth making money the hard way when you could have made it with much less effort. If you say "I'm launching a new business every month this year," you've just painted yourself into a corner which requires that you put together businesses that don't require time or energy. That's a good corner to be in. With our hypothetical, how do you feel about that corner? You feel pretty good. But if you say "I'm going to set up one business this year, just one, only one, and after I make that choice, I'm committing to it for years", you're painting yourself into a different corner, where whichever business you choose to start, you're fucking stuck with it. It's your whole life now, for years to come. So you're going to hem and haw a long god damn time before you choose which kind of business to start, and when you finally make the choice, you might choose a shitty business model because it revolves around a technology which would be fun to build. That's a bad corner. It's bad for your integrity and it's bad for your quality of life. (And this whole site is basically devoted to exalting that particular bad decision.) Also, RubyFlow could become a Reddit or a TechCrunch. The fact that it isn't one now doesn't mean anything. The fiercest tiger starts life as a kitten. If you start 12 companies in a year, you can always come back to them a year later and decide to put a little more effort into a few of them and build them into larger things. I aimed for 12 miniapps last year. I didn't hit that mark, but I ended the year having built a bunch of miniapps, and one of them (Hacker Newspaper) I'm definitely going to keep around, and can, if I wish, add new features to. That's so much better than just building one thing and betting the farm on that one thing. I mean there's a reason venture capitalists never bet the farm on one company.