I wish there was more content like this - "making hundreds (not thousands) of $ in MRR after y years".
Give a dose of realism and pinpoint the second benefit — the skillset that is truly unique and worth it.
You no longer care about an isolated Jira ticket. You see a thread from vision to execution. As a dev, you start to value other parts of the company and build better bridges/interfaces between teams.
As someone said, building something on your own feels like staring into the abyss and eating glass. Be aware, it's not for everyone and can cost you — not only $$$ but relationships and health.
And that is even if you are passionate about the thing.
Having started a side project in 2018 myself (now in low $$$$ MRR), I can attest that passion is key — because it's what you would do in your free time anyway.
My non-obvious observation after five years in this field:
In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session.
The clarity of mind you get after a journalling session comes from structuring things in your head, not in your TfT tool.
Yet, as one would expect, people project that feeling onto a tool — which leads to more time invested.
Ultimately after the N-th session, when you try to use the tool to get more of that feeling — you get the opposite, burnout, and then people switch to a new TfT app for the same cycle.
These benefits are why "Daily Pages" were vital to Roam Research's success. Not the bi-directional links or graphs as many think.
"Daily Pages" get you closer to a new therapeutic session, which is what you want most of the time.
I use :
- paper notebooks.
- remarkable 2
- markdown/notion + NeuraCache [I'm a founder] for flashcards and spaced repetition
+ I've been in group and individual therapy for three years now.
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