Things I don’t want to do to grow my side project

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webtoapp.design

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OpenMPT

I like this comment; and I have a similar thing with "indie music" or "jingle creation"; lots of podcasts and such have the listeners submit music and jingles to go with the theme of the show, and while a couple over the years have been really fascinatingly good, 99% of it is not. I produced and wrote several electronic albums over 16 years, to no fame, fortune, or recognition. I changed my workflows and software almost a half dozen times in that time frame; but the thing that did not change was the passion of creating something new that no one had ever done before. Now, when someone says something offhand or funny, I can usually bang out a 10-30 second jingle or music clip in a couple hours using rudimentary software (my go to for extreme speed is OpenMPT - https://openmpt.org/), and I think the quality and listen-ability, as well as the fidelity of speech/singing is light-years ahead of whatever the common submissions are. Now, I'm generally a cantankerous cuss these days online, so even my best stuff doesn't get a lot of play; but 2 decades of being "in the scene" and trying to get plays kinda washed the desire for fame out of me, so I find myself not caring. If you find yourself looking at other artistic things people have done and the thought "train-wreck" comes to mind - maybe you've learned enough stuff to be able to talk about it legitimately in a critical way?

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Remote Leaf

I'm one of the victims of this scenario that the OP is talking about. I'm working on a side project for 3 years, it's a personalized job board for remote job seekers[1]. I'm doing a full-time job as well. I had grown it to 4k$ MRR working day and night and put in a lot of effort. At one point I lost my energy and lost my focus, interest and everything. Now it's at the lowest point ever 1k$ MRR. I think I'll need to follow OP's advice here. Just do the interesting things and grow slowly. Thanks for this post and it perfectly fit me. [1] - https://remoteleaf.com.

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Vanilla JS

I have a multiplayer browser game I was developing that I didn't even get far enough to start having to worry about accounting, marketing, etc... I stopped because front-end development makes my eyes glaze over. The back-end is complete. You can theoretically play the game using any program that lets you manually send WebSocket messages. The game mechanics are all implemented. But damn I hate writing JavaScript and HTML. I got about halfway done with the front-end before the drudgery got to me and I haven't touched the project in well over a year. Maybe I need more jQuery. I'd been writing the front-end using Vanilla JS. http://vanilla-js.com/.

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