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At first I was thinking he just wanted an easy project to get his feet wet and expand his business with relatively low risk if it does fail. I still cannot comprehend how he thought he has to compete over something that other developers use to practice their software development skills and kept doubling down. This is like the "make the best pot vs make as many pots as possible" pottery anecdote.

He also completely failed to follow through the bandcamp thinking: You're supposed to put in the bare minimum effort needed for your own company and then try to spin it off as passive income to pay for the development costs and then use the profits to improve the app. If there are no profits then that's when you have to stop.



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