Open source software. Sigh.
I have a librry that has been downloaded 1.9 million times for a VERY specific functionality. Never gotten a red cent.
I mean its ok, its bettering the world as is, but it does suck when you get AI generated issues and GitHub has no way to deal with the spam. Ive thought about moving over to codeberg or something but theres no protection there either.
Thank you for your service 😘
I’d be happy to receive a portion of the money my Stardew Valley farm makes.
My farmer, [74][279][337], emphatically agrees with this statement!
I see what you did there.
I’m pretty far in the negative on my company. I’ve invested about $50,000 and 4 years of work into it, and it has not become profitable. But, its operating expenses are pretty low, so I have enough to maintain it for about 4 more years. If it’s still not profitable then, I’d have to look for outside investors. The majority of the expense was lawyer fees for the patent.
Well we’re all curious now…
Its hard to asses things when i dont know what you are doing, but average for new company to get profitable is about 2-3 years, but its not uncommon for it to take +5 years. Especially if its a new thing like the patent makes it sound.
At the four year mark i would recommend you to take a step back and look the processes you do and try to figure out if there is a way to streamline something on it. Its really hard to notice some inefficiences when you have used to do things in that way.
If you have a lot of competion on your business try to figure what is a thing they do poorly and try to do it better. That way the people who are disapointed for that specific thing have good reason to switch to use your product. You dont need to be better than everybody at everything, just find the group of customers that find you as the best fit.
Also if you chance something you do, dont get too stuck in fear of loosing customers. If some change makes you loose 10 customers, but makes you 20 new ones thats not a loss.
If you are operating at loss raising the price is not unreasonable thing to do. For excample if you raise the price 5% you can loose 5% of the customers and make the same profit with 5% less work
That’s a convoluted answer for me. I hand sharpen knives and straight razors as a hobby. Been doing it for like 30 years and have several hundreds of dollars in diamond and wetstones. I doubt there’s 500 people in the country (US) that are better than I am at hand sharpening.
The convoluted part is that I could charge people to sharpen knives. I just don’t want to.
If you’re good at something you shouldn’t feel bad about charging for it. A lot of the economy is based on trading money for skilled labor.
I’d rather not ruin a hobby by making it a job.
My memes, shitposts and comments on here
If someone pays me to play music before I die, it’ll feel like mission accomplished.
I have a cool 5 Canadian dollars.

I used to make a lot of Garry’s Mod animations. One such one…
Never did sign my channel up for monetization - I didn’t like the patterns YouTube pushed you into and each animation usually took me many months. You can kind of see on my channel I tended to get distracted by whatever was a current trend. I’m trying one more that took me the better part of this year.
A lot of people remark that “I must really enjoy animating” - I do enjoy the result, but it’s a lot of work and takes willpower to push myself into another 3-hour session of laborious posing to get a scene in my mind on the screen just right. I also really hope for the animations to garner attention, even if just to make someone’s day better.
I made a Halloween mask this year from start to finish. The entire process took 2 months of work but it paid off in a way that if i can get faster at it i might try to sell something one day at a convention 😁👍
Next step in the process is learning about Vacuum Forming! Then we’ll really be in business.
Mask in question:

That looks just like my dad
Oof
Masturbation.
A very saleable hobby nowadays!
You might be surprised how many overweight, middle-aged, balding white men with small cocks can’t make enough off Only Fans to pay the rent.
Because of woke
Woke DEI titties and monster dongs.
Currently working on my bachelor. Obviously that’s not earning me any money right now, but the hope is that it eventually will. Good thing is that it’s also not costing me any money, since my employer pays for it.
Chores, organizing, cleaning. I spent so much time working on home projects this summer and when I look around it feels like I lost time. Somehow I’ve been working consistently without getting a foothold or making progress. Still laundry in the dryer and a mess everywhere.
Imagine how messy it would be if you hadn’t been cleaning though.
My husband
My girlfriend 😏
Blender at one point, but ive given up on the pipedream as ive put barely over a year in, maybe in 3 more
Went from trying to make money somehow back to just dickin around trying to learn how everything works, 3d just doesnt seem to pay all that well even for ppl with experience, entry level it jobs are nowhere to be found where i moved back home but I may be able to work at a place opening soon, for now I train ai to train myself out of a job, finally getting steady work there after two years of maybe an hour of work a month popping up, as I didnt even realize there were multiple platforms to sign up for, couldve been making money sooner.
Feelin extra greatful for my parents tho, got to just learn blender and pursue other hobbies for a year, mightve been more valuable than working everyday as I no longer have the brain capacity to do tutorials after working for 6-8 hours, dont even want to read comics after and now that I have money, im spending it on distractions like gaming and not potentially productive sht like blender (lol its free). Fk it tho I want a legion go s to play on while shit renders.
im a hobby hopper, started with flash or something, just been jumping program to program and forgetting about them ever since
I got a handful of houseplants that I’ve kept alive for years (one close to a decade) and I’m not sure its really done anything for me.
Cleaning, especially doing the goddamn dishes











