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Watching my sideproject die and feeling kinda deppressed

Hi,

I while ago i posted here in hackernews post about my side project https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11982006

I love designing stuff i do it on my full-time job, i do it on my free time, i do it when i wake up, i do it before i go to sleep. When i started I was super motivated and productive. Now i feel that I am stuck and something ain't right.

156 days have passed and i have some harsh takeaways from my experience.

Building side project which takes more than "few weekends" to build is fcking hard.

Working with developers that have full time job and are helping you in free time sucks.

Being a 1 man army didn't work out in a long term - got burned out pretty quickly

So whats this post is all about?

I am looking for guidance, light of the end of the tunnel, anything that can get the spark back. Co founder, investor, buyer, mentor.

Or maybe should I let it die and move on?

Data:

Stack - Python, MongoDB, React.js Users - 2.7k Maintaining app - 80$/month

26 points kristaps1990 10 years ago 23 comments

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