Terrific! Well, first of all I would like to thank you for sharing this post and admiring your pure honesty. I've never seen or read any article or post such as yours especially this one. This is your journey and the experience both technical and non-technical you are getting which you'll use for a 💎 waiting for you. I can feel some of those emotions you have as I'm also "software engineer" who is struggling financially in some ways. Though I know this struggle preparing me for better. I wish you best of luck in your journey!
I was in the same dilemma to share the numbers of how my dev agency is doing, but refrained, because that's not the place where I want things to grow, but rather grow the business, organically. Hope that makes sense, thanks for your thoughtful blog :)
I'm seeing a trend where people like you, Marc Lou etc. slowly continue working on a project, working on yourself, reading, learning and becoming 1% every day as a person. It's like the oldest cliche advice in the world but it's the same if software as in anything!
Focus on 1 thing, stay in your niche, build something cool and continue to optimise, improve and learn. Make the onboarding better, market more, post more, improve the onboarding, learn a new platform, strip away more that is superfluous. There is this principle here, not optimisation it's more like Kaizen. Keep doing the boring stuff in one concentrated direction and you'll get to where you wanna be.
But you're also talking about the negatives we see in this space:
- Pocket watching
- Greed
- Blind copying other products instead of building something with your own creativity
- Lack of authenticity
- Lack of Integrity
- Lack of "Stick to it ness"
People are running around like headless chickens, copying other people, trying to make money by copying others and it just doesn't work like that. It's not sustainable. People are chasing the lifestyle instead of the work. People are chasing the MRR instead of Product worthy of a good MRR
Interesting take, it is making me questioning sharing my 100$MRR lol, no product market fit, no real business, is it worthwhile at this stage...
Thanks. I would think about it, at least.
This was written so nicely! :)
Thank you, my friend 🫶
Terrific! Well, first of all I would like to thank you for sharing this post and admiring your pure honesty. I've never seen or read any article or post such as yours especially this one. This is your journey and the experience both technical and non-technical you are getting which you'll use for a 💎 waiting for you. I can feel some of those emotions you have as I'm also "software engineer" who is struggling financially in some ways. Though I know this struggle preparing me for better. I wish you best of luck in your journey!
Thank you for the nice words 🙏
Dmytro thanks for this thoughtful blog
I was in the same dilemma to share the numbers of how my dev agency is doing, but refrained, because that's not the place where I want things to grow, but rather grow the business, organically. Hope that makes sense, thanks for your thoughtful blog :)
Thanks for sharing that.
Yes, to each his own?
Yeah makes sense!
I'm seeing a trend where people like you, Marc Lou etc. slowly continue working on a project, working on yourself, reading, learning and becoming 1% every day as a person. It's like the oldest cliche advice in the world but it's the same if software as in anything!
Focus on 1 thing, stay in your niche, build something cool and continue to optimise, improve and learn. Make the onboarding better, market more, post more, improve the onboarding, learn a new platform, strip away more that is superfluous. There is this principle here, not optimisation it's more like Kaizen. Keep doing the boring stuff in one concentrated direction and you'll get to where you wanna be.
But you're also talking about the negatives we see in this space:
- Pocket watching
- Greed
- Blind copying other products instead of building something with your own creativity
- Lack of authenticity
- Lack of Integrity
- Lack of "Stick to it ness"
People are running around like headless chickens, copying other people, trying to make money by copying others and it just doesn't work like that. It's not sustainable. People are chasing the lifestyle instead of the work. People are chasing the MRR instead of Product worthy of a good MRR