I wouldn't laugh. If you actually enjoy being employed, more power to you! It's ludicrous that you even feel the need to ask, to find out if the people in your

I wouldn't laugh. If you actually enjoy being employed, more power to you! It's ludicrous that you even feel the need to ask, to find out if the people in your community would mock you for not dreaming big enough, when you have decided what would make you happiest. Note that I'm not criticizing you, but the attitude of many around here that you led you to feel like you either have to boil the ocean or go home. I love being an independent businesswoman, but even my product is still only part-time. We've got about 580 paying users at http://letsfreckle.com http://letsfreckle.com and "we" is just me, my husband, and our new part-term intern-y guy. While we're picking up the dev/promo pace, I bet we don't put in more than 60 man-hours/wk total for all 3 of us. Now, I do want to grow it (and our future SaaS projects) to a lot of revenue, but not a lot of people. My ideal company will employ 5-8 people. Just enough for a nice big family dinner. I will say that if you put enough effort into the "mode" and interaction design of a product, that the customer support burden can be very small. We spend less than 30 minutes a day on emails. (Not counting work the emails might bring up, e.g. bug fixes, but that's not customer support!) EDIT: I hate that phrase, "lifestyle business." We need a powerful term that doesn't conjure up the idea of giving us pats on the head because of our adorable little dreams. Any suggestions?