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15 years ago, I wrote a program to track which books I have read and automatically synchronize the list it with various library accounts. Then I thought I woul
by benibela 5y ago
15 years ago, I wrote a program to track which books I have read and automatically synchronize the list it with various library accounts. Then I thought I would start a company selling the program.
But that failed, because every library I talked to said, they cannot support commercial software.
Then I gave up all commercial software development and made it fully open-source, so I do not have to deal with it anymore. But that backfired, because too many people asked me to add stuff, and now I am forever stuck maintaining it, and cannot start a new project
- JPLeRouzic 5y ago> because too many people asked me to add stuff, and now I am forever stuck maintaining it, and cannot start a new project It seems a good time to start again to launch this company, isn't?
- vimy 5y ago> But that backfired, because too many people asked me to add stuff, and now I am forever stuck maintaining it, and cannot start a new project You can charge money or abandon it? You don’t owe random people free work.