Ask for money. It's really hard, I've been there. You want to help people, it's nice helping them, you feel validated doing it. But in the longer term you end

Ask for money. It's really hard, I've been there. You want to help people, it's nice helping them, you feel validated doing it. But in the longer term you end up feeling like you do now. It's harder when you have a product, especially if you start offering that for free, because very few people value free things. The (kind of) flip side to this - get better at sales. It feels really icky and embarrassing at first, but learn to sell yourself and your product with a value attached it. If you're not happy doing it (for free or for money) learn to say 'no, sorry'. When people are paying, learn the phrase "that's out of scope for this project". Honestly, it's really hard, but you get better with practice. For the teaching part - a friend gave me a really useful tip. Give them a massive task first, something like - "read this book, it's $17 on Amazon, we'll talk it through after, then I can give you some lessons." It very, very quickly separates the people who will actually do stuff, care, work on their own and you'll want to work with, from those who are just dipping in and will suck your time.