Thank you. That's a great quote. Obviously it's such an unclear question, and it stems from something deeper than just the performance of my work. The whole mental health / psychological resilience is a big piece of it, but I didn't want to overshare too much in the article (it's already super long without it).
In general, that's something that I've always tried to do in my other posts too - trying to be vulnerable and share stuff to an extent, but hopefully in a way that helps/inspires people who can relate to feeling that way.
Thank you so much! I will get that fixed asap. I don't understand how the links that were officially shortened for App Store can stop working, but somehow they did. It's unfortunate that this could've been broken for a very long time now, it's just not something I would think of periodically verifying that it's still working.
One idea for catching this sort of break in the future is monitoring the source people use to acquire your app. It looks like the App Store might support tracking which website referred people to download your app:
That's a good advice. For me I was doing freelancing on the side for many years, and then naturally as my app was starting to make more money, I'd decrease the amount of freelancing I was doing, and then eventually I stopped freelancing altogether.
It's Lukas here, author of the article. Learning from mistakes is definitely important. I also like your recommendation of keeping this perspective, thank you.
It's Lukas here, author of the article. I can see how this could be misinterpreted, I should've done a better job of explaining what I mean by this - what I specifically meant was choosing unfulfilling and sketchy client work, just because it pays much more. As for people doing well financially with their own business - that's great! I applaud them, and want to be doing better myself. But what you seem to be missing in your comment - for me, it's about priorities. And yes, with my experience with iOS development now, I could "flip the switch" and immediately start making ~4 times more than what I'm making now, if maximizing income was my priority. But it isn't. So, to sum it up: to each its own. For me, the way I come to money is much more important to me than how much money I make.
