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"Yeah, you'll support it while it is new and fun, but six months from now? Two years from now, when you're in the middle of that startup that this toy project i
by cool-RR 15y ago
"Yeah, you'll support it while it is new and fun, but six months from now? Two years from now, when you're in the middle of that startup that this toy project is the warmup exercise for? Ten years from now?"
You're taking it too far-- I sometimes see great projects on HN that took less than a month to make.
By the way, since you bring up the commitment issue; I've been sticking with my own non-profit project for slightly more than two years now, and I see it as a real possibility that I will keep working on up to the next decade. But maybe that's just me :)
- mechanical_fish 15y agoWell, clearly that project is profitable enough to survive! Good for you. But what I suggest is that this is usually not an accident: You have an available budget of time and money, and your project fits within that budget, and that is most likely by design, consciously or unconsciously. Unless you have very cleverly chosen a project whose bottleneck is not your available time and resources, one in which there's nothing you could do with more resources that would make your users happier, or make the number of happy users more numerous.