Colin, I think the most likely situation is that you are offered a great job by someone who doesn't want you to continue side work. You'd have to make the deci

Colin, I think the most likely situation is that you are offered a great job by someone who doesn't want you to continue side work. You'd have to make the decision between that well-paid dream job, or your commitment to your own business. If we are lucky, you can negotiate an exemption based on limited hours required to maintain tarsnap, and/or some contract fulfillment period (contract to customers, which does not exist presently). Or you could farm the maintenance out to a trusted person, give them a cut of the biz, and stay on as a passive shareholder. I'm happy that tarsnap does well for you, but we know it will be quite a stretch for it to match your potential for income and impact at a larger company. We hope it expands to meet and exceed all of your needs, and gives you other kinds of valuable rewards. But we wouldn't hold it against you if you had to make personal decisions that didn't fulfill all of our wishes. You don't owe us that. No one does. If you were feeling generous, you could offer customers a 1-year product EOL notice guarantee. Barring insolvency, acts of g-d, etc, that you pledge to operate tarsnap at full service levels for at least one year after notification of product EOL. That's more than most small companies offer, and more than enough for us to get our stuff moved elsewhere. 1 year might be too much.