I have 42 github stars, I suspect that's not impressive but perhaps meaningful enough. >Now, it is used by quite a few people so you maintain it and the revenu

I have 42 github stars, I suspect that's not impressive but perhaps meaningful enough. >Now, it is used by quite a few people so you maintain it and the revenue it generates is your primary source of income. I kind of wish I knew how to do that. I have 2 fully functioning products but I have no idea how I go about trying to sell them and give random people access and support problems etc. All the while still holding a job so I can pay the bills. >If the above description fits you, can you recall how you learned to program and build meaningful things? More importantly what drew you towards programming, and not another subject? And if possible, mention THE meaningful software you wrote. So I went to college whose tagline was that you are already skilled sysadmin and you want to upgrade or refresh your skills. In reality it was a class full of people who vaguely knew how to type. So in my boredom I bought a 'learn C programming' book and taught myself how to program. I had already known bash and dos pretty well. C# and .net probably would have been the better choice but they were new at the time and not linux compatible. The awful syntax of C really damaged my software development track. Many years later I got into python and frankly I wish I had gotten into python forever before. Now I love programming. So my 2 private projects. 1 is a honeypot network which produces a threat feed of ip address in txt and stix output. Pretty much all the usual nextgen firewalls can ingest and block traffic. The other is an NCM built with django. If pulls configs off the usual networking devices but also effectively runs a report to tell you what rules you are breaking in the security hardening guide.