Exactly. My company’s first product is niche enough that it will never scale to the stratosphere... but my goals for it were explicitly: 1) To provide a steady

Exactly. My company’s first product is niche enough that it will never scale to the stratosphere... but my goals for it were explicitly: 1) To provide a steady enough stream of income that I don’t have to go back to a “real job”. 2) To do so while allowing me to spend some time developing my next product (with better scaling characteristics.) It’s doing both of these so I consider it a total win, despite me still not owning a private island.