We think alike :) I’ve used the same strategy to turn Lunar (https://lunar.fyi) into a $5k/month business and to have the luxury of not having to sit through an interview or work for someone else in the near future.
I like both coding, design and reverse engineering so I do those with passion. But I leave taxes to Paddle and promotion to happy users.
I write rarely on my blog [1] and only if I feel I have gathered enough new information that could help other people with their endeavor.
I’ve yet to hire people for something, but as the project gets more complex, I feel the need to do that:
- some short frontpage animation that could explain the most used app features would be a nice addition but I’m no After Effects expert and I’m not keen on learning that
- doing statistics on the monitor data [2] and finding the best sensible defaults for each monitor would improve the user experience, but cleaning up data and having to relearn pandas would take time
It’s hard to justify the price of paying someone to do that and I always feel I should do it myself. But in the life of every side project that becomes a business, there comes a day when we have to admit that it’s not healthy to try to do everything.
Huh. I thought about making something like this a few years ago. I'm amazed to see the idea turn into a successful business.
I'm forever grateful to the ddcctl [1] project which enabled all these monitor control solutions.