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You sir are a big inspiration to me! As someone also born in EE I can very much appreciate your courage and dedication doing a side gig like this. I would say

You sir are a big inspiration to me! As someone also born in EE I can very much appreciate your courage and dedication doing a side gig like this. I would say 3500 a month is even a median salary for an IT position in WE. From your resume I take it you still work full time? I wonder if that's even worth it at this point unless you make a lot more from your FTE position. Anyway props!

alin23 5y ago
Thank you for the kind words! I haven’t updated my resume for a while because I don’t have a job anymore and I’m serious about not having to get hired ever again. I’ve written about how I quit my job in March last year and started turning Lunar into a revenue generating project here: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/ https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/ There’s a lot more info in the article that you might not be interested in though. For the 1 year anniversary of this decision I’m writing another article with everything I tried with Lunar and other apps in the last year. That might be more relevant because I’ll share user stats, real numbers on revenue, trial and error with paid advertising etc. Yes, $3.5k sounds pretty good for Eastern Europe, but the truth is that prices have also skyrocketed. I’ve been trying to get away from my current matchbox sized rented apartment and build a house with my wife. I’ve reached the conclusion that I need like $200k in savings to do it and I’m nowhere near that.
- mathverse 5y ago
  I know it's an interesting problem and you probably learned a lot along your way but dont you feel like it was a hard problem to tackle and the ROI is rather low?
  - alin23 5y ago
    Oh no, not at all! Sure, dealing with the problems of less knowledgeable users is sometimes annoying, because 99% of the problems stem from non-compliant monitors/hubs/docks etc. But nowadays I get weeks at a time where I can do 0 work on Lunar and dive into my own curiosities (that's how I got to the idea of lowtechguys.com), or simply go on multi-city long trips with my bike without thinking that I have to ask for time off from a boss. I don't look forward to being forced into long video calls where my time is simply wasted so that higher-ups can hear me saying "we're working on it". The ROI is much higher than you think, time is far more valuable than money.

alin23 5y ago

Thank you for the kind words! I haven’t updated my resume for a while because I don’t have a job anymore and I’m serious about not having to get hired ever again. I’ve written about how I quit my job in March last year and started turning Lunar into a revenue generating project here: https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/ https://alinpanaitiu.com/blog/journey-to-ddc-on-m1-macs/ There’s a lot more info in the article that you might not be interested in though. For the 1 year anniversary of this decision I’m writing another article with everything I tried with Lunar and other apps in the last year. That might be more relevant because I’ll share user stats, real numbers on revenue, trial and error with paid advertising etc. Yes, $3.5k sounds pretty good for Eastern Europe, but the truth is that prices have also skyrocketed. I’ve been trying to get away from my current matchbox sized rented apartment and build a house with my wife. I’ve reached the conclusion that I need like $200k in savings to do it and I’m nowhere near that.

mathverse 5y ago
I know it's an interesting problem and you probably learned a lot along your way but dont you feel like it was a hard problem to tackle and the ROI is rather low?
- alin23 5y ago
  Oh no, not at all! Sure, dealing with the problems of less knowledgeable users is sometimes annoying, because 99% of the problems stem from non-compliant monitors/hubs/docks etc. But nowadays I get weeks at a time where I can do 0 work on Lunar and dive into my own curiosities (that's how I got to the idea of lowtechguys.com), or simply go on multi-city long trips with my bike without thinking that I have to ask for time off from a boss. I don't look forward to being forced into long video calls where my time is simply wasted so that higher-ups can hear me saying "we're working on it". The ROI is much higher than you think, time is far more valuable than money.