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It's a bit strange to me that you use profitability as your metric of success for a _side project_. Most of the shiny tech that has severe breaking changes is
by qorrect 7y ago
It's a bit strange to me that you use profitability as your metric of success for a _side project_.
Most of the shiny tech that has severe breaking changes is Javascript - there are plenty of other technologies to have fun with.
The older I get the less I care about the technology choice and the more I care about the content of the project.
- scarface74 7y agoI have plenty of other things to do with my free time that don’t involve computers. If I’m going to spend time on a side project, it’s only going to either be to make money from the project or learn something that someone will pay me for.
- kugelblitz 7y agoIt's one of the metrics, but having kids and thus less time for hobby projects, the more profitable a side project, the more time I can dedicate to it (and reduce my freelance work). And thus I can use it more long-term. With non-breaking tech, I can focus more on features and monetization instead of updates and debugging. I still give some space for experimentation (re: frontend I'm interested in learning more about Mithril.js and Svelte), but I don't go all in and risk long-term profitability.