@qwwerty yes, I believe that IN CERTAIN NICHES you can just do a good product once and monetize it forever through subscription, without ever touching the codebase again (aside from merging dependabot's requests).

Imagine a product that never changes, just exists in the background, non-excitingly earning one person their living. That's my end goal.

@qwwerty first, I'm doing it all alone, as I always do.

Second, I deeply believe that some software projects can just be “done”. I never understood it when companies like Slack were cramming more and more features into their products, probably motivated by nothing but fear of the competition. I think that if they fire everyone in the engineering dept. but one guy who will be applying security patches, their market share won't suffer long term.

For my project, I've specifically chosen a trivial and highly utilitarian scope that anyone can tackle, just to outdo everyone in UI/UX and reap my MRR forever, all alone. My product is boring. The business model and the overall spirit here is that of pushover.net and rsync.net, not google or facebook. A super-stable, super-inert whale entirely dominating a very specific narrow niche.

I've already done one free project that I didn't touch for 4 years now, and it still gets crazy usage.

Also, Jim Carrey in “Mask” has no ears.

@lungdart wow! So how do you avoid gaining all the weight back?

Both Bing and Yandex support https://www.indexnow.org. Use it to get reindexed instantly.

Google doesn't.

@Lensflare there is none. I just thought it was funny

we're one step closer to doing Intel's JNZ in JS

@Lensflare Kevin is a common name in Germany of all places? I never knew!

@antigermanist “In France, they call people like you Les Incompetes.”
— Kevin McCallister‘s sister to Kevin McCallister

By the way, my motivation thing works for me astonishingly well. Without an active side project, I feel like the biggest loser in the world. I _have_ to have a good side project to get much needed dopamine. Because I'm bipolar, I can use every bit of dopamine I can have.

My current side project is so fucking amazing in every single aspect that y'all will shit your pants when you see it. The design, the code, the content, everything is perfect. Truly my magnum opus.

There are two parts to it: free one and paid one. Free one is 100% ready. Paid one is like 30% ready, so yeah, I'm really doing it and not just talking about doing it.

If you don’t do the side project that earns you money, you will work for the rest of your life. Simple as that

stole the “prosecutor got me by my balls” from one of you, don't remember who

@awesomeest pics! pics! pics! pics! pics!

@antigermanist that one week off thing is a price you pay for the entire autumn/winter/early spring worth of dirt cheap heating everyone's apartment had preinstalled when the house was built, so… fine by me. I'll just get a water heater and use it for a week every year. That's what everyone is doing

ah, the sweet sweet times when my drunk grandpa forgot the stroller with 1 y.o. me on the street when it was -35 degrees Celsius outside, and I almost died from a long battle with pneumonia afterwards. Not at all helped by my shitstain of a mother trying to cure it with homeopathy. Good times!

yaayy! congrats!

@Lensflare I bet M$ GitHub or TS teams and M$ Windows Server teams live vastly different lives.

@retoor it does

@lungdart what's your technique? does it work?

@tosensei ouch.

> the whole of human history only exists to scam you specifically

While I too notice dotty's tendency to actively distrust everything that has something to do with physics, medicine and science in general, please refrain from bashing her so hard under my rants. Thanks!

@Lensflare bulimia?

@Lensflare https://youtu.be/mTABw0EyIWY

@kobenz I’m 20 kilos overweight

@jestdotty are you sure you're counting them right? Also, if you're burning a lot of calories, this can explain it

@Ranchonyx when they fire you In Germany, how many months worth of salary they have to pay you?

@cuddlyogre that’s exactly what’s gonna happen in the US. In Western Europe though… different story.

Europeans: you've received this auto-reply because I'm on my three-month vacation right now. Iceland is beautiful!

Americans: I have to leave because I have surgery in two hours, but I'll be available on Teams before, after and during.

@netikras ouch

Anthropic logo is a one-to-one, line-by-line copy of a Charles Darwin's drawing of an asshole.

@retoor sorry, but it’s not it 😞 absolutely off target, even worse than the first “dream” based on just two posts