zarfius
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:31AM (#25631049)
Awesome to see you here. I've been using the paid app for years and I'm more than happy to support you forever.
Re:Ask HN: Successful one-person online businesses in 2021?
on Monday January 04, 2021 @08:27AM (#25631009)
I wrote an OFX importer for Lunch Money just last week. Do the brokerage accounts support that?
Re:What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
on Wednesday August 05, 2020 @05:29AM (#24058815)
No problem. You're absolutely right. I did have fun making it and learned a lot in the process. No regrets.
Goals change over time. Even now I'm making new goals that will no doubt be a bit different in years to come.
Re:What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:25AM (#24034459)
I actually have a pretty good day job. I just have a lot of spare time. I'd rather be working on a side project instead of watching Netflix.
Thanks for reading!
Re:What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:14AM (#24034423)
I had goals. Some of those goals I did reach but having goals and knowing how to reach them are very different things.
Thanks for reading.
Re:What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
on Monday August 03, 2020 @01:03AM (#24034371)
You're welcome. Thanks for reading!
Re:What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
on Monday August 03, 2020 @12:53AM (#24034340)
Thanks for reading and thanks for the kind comments.
It's true, having this project under my belt has already helped my career in many ways. I'm pretty sure it was a big factor in landing my last job. Not to mention the many hours of practice I put into coding outside my day job.
I never really wanted to compete with Unity but in hindsight I may have been better off piggybacking my library on Unity rather than MonoGame.
Re:What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
on Sunday August 02, 2020 @08:22PM (#24032945)
Thanks for reading.
You pretty much nailed it. I went into the project without a clear monetization plan and when I got around to trying to figure it out I didn't know how.
Re:What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
on Sunday August 02, 2020 @07:27PM (#24032683)
Thanks for reading!
In hindsight I totally agree with you. Unfortunately when I started the project I wasn't in that mindset. It started as a passion project, mostly an experiment in building an audience around something I enjoyed creating.
More recently I've been getting some help to understand the things I did wrong and to start with the business strategy.
Re:What I Learned About Failing from My 5 Year Indie Game Dev Project
on Sunday August 02, 2020 @07:14PM (#24032614)
Thanks for reading!
I don't know if I'd still feel like quitting but I would have more money so that would be nice.
Joking aside, it's really hard to say how I'd feel. 5 years is a long time and if I'd been able to put more money back into the project the story would have been very different.
In any case, I've grown a lot since I started that project and I'm ready to spend the next 5 years on something new. Hopefully more financially sustainable.