I rewrote my product 6 or 7 times in the past 6 years. 4 of those years were written in isolation by myself. 1.5 years I worked as a developer which I HATED and

I rewrote my product 6 or 7 times in the past 6 years. 4 of those years were written in isolation by myself. 1.5 years I worked as a developer which I HATED and fired from (refusing to work excessive overtimes and as a result impossible to find a job in this competitive labor market) and working on my product again. I open sourced the old code that I "threw" out to start all over. Technically, never reached market until 5 months ago. I have of course, launched after each time the product was finished but would give up due to being burnt out etc. An entire year spent starting from scratch which would be my 7th attempt. 3 month in after launch I was going to rewrite it again, I decided, this would've been my last attempt in the software business. I decided that enough was enough, this is it. I ALMOST rewrote it again but having done that 7 times already, instead of doing that, I just ripped out a lot of code, made architectural changes and reused what I could, whatever was tested. 8 times a charm.... My lesson learned from past 6 years pursuing insanity, restarting from scratch means you will have to solve the same problems again and again. A blank canvas is NOT a solution. Don't do that, it's insane, I was insane but not anymore.