It's a good post. I wrote something similar a while back about my experiences. Inevitably I ended up on the VC funded path which I don't think Matt really touch

It's a good post. I wrote something similar a while back about my experiences. Inevitably I ended up on the VC funded path which I don't think Matt really touches on. I think the issue with open source is just expectations, on both sides. You don't build open source in a silo, it's because you want people to use the software and ultimately that means you have to deal with the good and bad parts of that. My most successful project is a Go framework that has 18k stars on GitHub and does 1m clones a month. I don't work on it anymore, I've left others to maintain it now. It was a great experience because I can say I literally built that from scratch but it never attracted the level of attention and maintainers I wanted. So eventually I burned out. Such is life. Here's the article if you want to read it https://link.medium.com/swepTBLZsob https://link.medium.com/swepTBLZsob