How do you feel about support though? Paying users tend to want that...
Because you mention slaving away. Are you right now? Doesn't sound like. Will you if you have to support a product? Hmmm.
Feel free to call this spiritual nonsense, but I believe the intent with which products are created is attached to the product. Products are a reflection of who the person was at the time they've built them.
(See Facebook. For all the bells and whistles, you can still smell the dorm room at the core of the product. Changing the name to Meta hardly changed that...)
Take everything you've learned (for example - that tools to help other people be awesome.) and build something new. By the way, that something new could be on top of the tool. Open source projects I follow (spaCy, HuggingFace) seem to do a good job of it. But that goes back to thinking of it as a company, including the responsibility owed to users...
Feel free to call this spiritual nonsense, but I believe the intent with which products are created is attached to the product. Products are a reflection of who the person was at the time they've built them. (See Facebook. For all the bells and whistles, you can still smell the dorm room at the core of the product. Changing the name to Meta hardly changed that...)
Take everything you've learned (for example - that tools to help other people be awesome.) and build something new. By the way, that something new could be on top of the tool. Open source projects I follow (spaCy, HuggingFace) seem to do a good job of it. But that goes back to thinking of it as a company, including the responsibility owed to users...