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Lifestyle business, micropreneur, microisv, indie. None of them are great terms. I am still waiting for someone to come up with a better term for what I do.
by hermitcrab 13y ago
Lifestyle business, micropreneur, microisv, indie. None of them are great terms. I am still waiting for someone to come up with a better term for what I do.
- yesimahuman 13y agoYou're a hacker, challenging the norms of what it means to start and grow a business. If software is eating the world, it's surely eating the capital requirements to starting software companies.
- hermitcrab 13y agoI quite like 'business hacker'. But 'hacker' comes with lots of other baggage (including the inevitable confusion with 'cracker').
- patja 13y agoI've always been fond of the label "living the dream."
- Sheepshow 13y agoSounds completely unobtainable. Lifestyle at least sounds like a choice that a person could make, and have control over.
- npsimons 13y agoIt's very subjective, but I find that what is described in the article is pretty much my dream. Of course, I'm not living it, so by that that standard it has so far remained "unobtainable".
- vinceguidry 13y agoMost of the people I know who use that phrase are being somewhat sarcastic. Most notably the helicopter pilot from Germany I knew who was getting paid absolute shit because until you make a certain number of flight hours, your options are extremely limited and you have to take a second job to make ends meet. Every time I said, "What's up?", he said "Living the dream, man!" then proceed to complain about all the shit he has to put up with. He loves flying, but the "dream" is anything but.
- Sheepshow 13y agoPoe's law strikes again!
- rooshdi 13y agoI don't think there is a perfect term, but indieveloper sounds neat.
- visualR 13y agoI like micro-isv. Still have a few of the t-shirts you used to sell.
- hermitcrab 13y agoThey were a one-off Xmas charity special. I only sold about 100, so they are very exclusive! ;0)
- robotresearcher 13y ago"Self-employed" is the traditional term in the UK.