ZiadHilal

Incredible! Virtual reality just got that much more serious.

$4,300 apartment lease. $1,000 car lease ($700 lease + $300 car insurance). Huge sum spent on high end restaurants. Taxes Also ended up hiring a few contract workers to take care of misc work such as customer support.

$20k was at the peak. $14k was average.

Was a downloadable CMS.

Mine too.

I created a CMS that did user integration with message boards, there were few to none at the time.

I made many mistakes, the biggest ones were:

1) Having hit a relatively high success at 21, I felt indestructible. I had no fear of spending most of my income on entertainment. I knew nothing about budgeting, I should have saved.

2) Towards the end, I definitely spent too much time having fun and ignoring the product. When you're on a high roll for so many years, you feel invincible.

The decline started gradually, but in my mind I always believed I could easily bring everything back on top. At the end, I repeatedly did everything in my power to save the product but it was too late.

I am a passive income hacker, here are my thoughts:

Studied CS at university for 2 years, dropped out to pursue an idea. After a couple years of work, I was bringing in 20k a month.

It was the most incredible time of my life. It lasted for 7 years before it hit the bottom. During that time I spent my days playing beach volleyball, tennis, golf, skateboarding, gaming, girls, beautiful car/apartment, the life in Santa Monica CA!

I wasn't the least bit afraid when the project/business started slowing down. I decided to launch two more ideas - BOTH FAILED. At that point I was burnt out and was running low on savings. I had no other choice but find employment. In my mind, I failed and lost everything. It hurt me for years, and still hurts me to this day.

While I have a great job, the feeling of imprisonment and failure is always with me. Eventually I got the strength to work on another idea during weekends and late nights. That gives you very little time, especially when you have a demanding job. It took over the course of a year to launch this new idea and it's not working out the way I hoped it would.

Call it what you want, but in my mind that's three failures in a row.

I've learned that luck and timing are definitely part of the equation. I've learned that you can spend year after year obsessed with coding your ideas and end up with only the knowledge.

It's extremely tough and taxing to go down this route. Be prepared to fail multiple times. Be prepared to lose every cent of your savings.

I know I'll continue trying, hopefully one day I'll come back on top again :)

Directly beneath the announcement is a list of the most popular IE downloads:

#1 - IE 8

#3 - IE 10

#4 - IE 7...

#5 - IE 9

Brilliant, thank you!

In my case, the company I work for is based in California (I started out from there) but I now live in Connecticut. It's been over a year since I last saw them.

I've been working remotely for 1 year and 3 months. The company I'm working for checks in once a week for about 20 minutes, other than that all communication is done through basecamp. I have to admit it's really hard for me and I just handed in my two weeks notice. I feel so isolated working from home and not being around other co-workers. I miss seing and interacting with other people. I'll be looking for a new job in New York next month and I'm really excited.

Why do you guys want to work from home? Isn't the isolation during the working hours hard on you?

In issue 1, in the third code snippet within the for loop. Shouldn't this code:

  finalParams[key] = defaultParams[key];

be written as

  finalParams[key] = paramObject[key];

Agreed with everything you mention. I'll update the front page of the website and duplicate the Sliding Boxes effects on the main screenshot.

I'll rewrite some of the language to target artists instead of developers. Thanks for this feedback, marketing is definitely not one of my strong suits.