"You have to have something to sell" - so true. One of my side projects, coffitivity.com, had millions of of users and was a Time Magazine top 50 website of 201

"You have to have something to sell" - so true. One of my side projects, coffitivity.com, had millions of of users and was a Time Magazine top 50 website of 2013, but it wasn't until we made something to sell (our apps, which for a while we sold) that it clicked in our heads what this could mean: if we had things we could sell, even if they weren't the primary thing we were doing, we could make EVERYTHING we do better, because we'd have more time to spend on it. We've moved to free to get our app downloads up in prep for an IAP model (which, so far, is very much on track), but having something to actually sell was a game changer for us. I know we're not writers, but niche website publishers have the same "have content people like but am not making money" problem, since ads blow and aren't particularly lucrative.