I keep on grinding on my Kubernetes IDE that allowed me to quit my day job over 3 years ago: https://aptakube.com/
I’ve also been playing with Bun and I have a business idea that would be a good fit, and huge potential but I just don’t have enough time to start something new anymore.
I shared with a couple of co-workers/friends and they all liked it, I then built a simple website with screenshots and a download button for free.
Then I started sharing the progress on LinkedIn/X, my co-workers shared on their network too which also helped.
After 4 months I put a price on it and sold it with a 50% discount for early adopters. A lot of people bought it, which to me was a signal that I was into something that could become bigger if I invested more time on it.
It went from side project to my primary job in less than 6 months.
Everyone was saying that $99 was too much for “an API wrapper”, but here we are, 2 years later and with hundreds of small to enterprise companies using it :)
This is really exciting news! 2 years ago I bet on Tauri to build Aptakube, instead of Electron, and it’s been one of the best decisions I’ve made.
It was early days, very risky, but well worth it in the end.
Surprisingly, calling my app “not another Electron” app has been a great marketing strategy :-)
Migration from v1 to Tauri v2 was very smooth as it’s clear the team spent a lot of time on DX. Highly recommend for anyone looking to build desktop apps (can’t say anything about mobile tho, I have no experience).
And then the fine would be proportionally much higher. No thanks, I use a MoR to sleep in peace. Also having a single revenue invoice for accounting makes things much easier
I’ve been thinking of building custom UI for popular CRDs like FluxCD/Argo/others, but I need to get a few highly requested features out of the way first.
I’be been self employed for ~1.5yrs after quitting my job to build a GUI for Kubernetes [1]
It’s not easy to get started, but im very happy with this change after being a FTE for 15yrs. It’s a refreshing experience having to talk to customers to understand their pain points and then build something for it
I’m also doing some part time freelancing, so with my products + freelancing I’m earning way more than as a FTE
https://aptakube.com/