Reading about your projects, it strikes me that some have different potential than others for perhaps one clear reason: solving a problem vs not. Why not double down on Zestful? There is demand there, and some are willing to pay...
>Why not double down on Zestful? There is demand there, and some are willing to pay...
Mainly because I don't know of any action I can take to grow Zestful. Large companies have already rolled their own solution. Smaller companies who need ingredient parsing have figured out some solution and they usually don't see it as worthwhile for them to take a chance on a new service if their old one is working fine. Customers need to find me at the time they're building a product that needs Zestful, but I don't know other ways of helping them find me beyond the SEO steps I've already taken.
Hate to be harsh - but I wouldn't call this progress... I would call this going backwards.
From what I can see he is drastically cutting back his lifestyle and all living costs and calling it a profit? The business and enterprise of being s solo dev itself is failing enterprise.
My advise (From experience) would be to be doing some outsourced/freelance work at this stage to help fund your projects.
Cutting back on one's cost of living can easily still be progress. If he's doing this to get rich, I would agree he is failing. However I don't think thats the idea. I think he wanted a different lifestyle, and one that was more self-directed. Through that lens, an astounding amount of progress has been made.
Reading about your projects, it strikes me that some have different potential than others for perhaps one clear reason: solving a problem vs not. Why not double down on Zestful? There is demand there, and some are willing to pay...
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