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That's the hard choice for me tbh, you explained it very well. Currently the operating costs are $0 since it's hosted entirely on Vercel's free tier, so my hope
by scratchyone 2y ago
That's the hard choice for me tbh, you explained it very well. Currently the operating costs are $0 since it's hosted entirely on Vercel's free tier, so my hope is mainly just to justify me spending a few hours a month improving it with new features and stuff.
Currently, it's hard to justify working on anything new for it since it is just a helpful web-tool, there's really no future for it beyond making it slightly more helpful for people's niche use-case. On the other hand, I don't want to ruin it for a couple bucks a month, so I need to be really careful on how I do this.
- beardyw 2y agoDo you really want to do it? As the op said you are unlikely to make any meaningful amount from it. What is your motivation?
- scratchyone 2y agoHonestly my main motivation is just that it doesn't feel worth it to spend time on most side projects because I could be putting that time towards my real paid tech job and actually be making money, so adding some profit makes it feel more worth it to do side projects i guess?
- PaulHoule 2y agoI do it for: fun, learning and planting a flag. Someday you might be looking for a new job and if you have some projects to show off that's the best thing for your job hunt. (e.g. when I was at rock bottom in my life, my HELOC was maxxed out and I just rolled my car, I started what I expected to be a difficult job hunt so I created an 'application management system' and talking about that landed me a job at an AI company with my interview. Out of the experience writing that I've written a few intelligent assistants such as an RSS reader which shows me just the most interesting articles and an image sorter that lets me easily work with 800,000 images with Chinese metadata even though I don't really know Chinese.)