Zoom in a bit and things look better. You don't need a million dollars a year to raise a family on a single-person software business with 90% margins. I know

Zoom in a bit and things look better. You don't need a million dollars a year to raise a family on a single-person software business with 90% margins. I know of at least four successful businesses that started as S3stat clones. No idea why they chose my particular niche either, as there are tons of better things to build. You don't need to build a Slack. You can live quite nicely on the profits of "Basecamp for X", for hundreds of as-yet unaddressed X's.