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Comment · 1 year ago
Comment · 3 years ago
Hey! FYI haven't seen anything in my inbox yet.
Comment · 3 years ago
Left my job in 2020 to do the same. Nowhere near as profitable as OP, but now make enough to cover rent + basic expenses in New York. Crucially: I didn't want to do hypeman social media content that (a) sold the dream of solopreneur as a marketing tactic, or (b) added excessive noise into the ether.
I'm not saying Tony did either -- I haven't followed along -- but certainly a lot of people do. I can't fully blame the people who do, though.
Anyway. The project I've built [1] is still going, and I feel proud of it on merits of software: that it pushes the bounds, however slightly; that it feels good to exist in the world; and that I genuinely care for the people using it.
All that's to say: I think there's a software solopreneur path that doesn't involve excessive hype, gross self-promotion (some degree of self-branding is necessary though), while allowing you to work by principles and also explore interesting software problems.
Feel free to DM me [2] if you have questions, or are interested in bootstrapping your own project. Especially consumer-facing. I do have some writing online [3] that covers this too.
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[1] https://mmm.page
Comment · 3 years ago
* Those hotkeys should work (follows Figma's example).
* A very high priority.
* Yeah... I plan to let people disable click (e.g. pointer-events: none) on elements, but automatically detecting transparent overlapping areas is a bit more work.
Comment · 3 years ago
Ohh. I misread this. I thought you meant auto-save the editor. Now my response seems glib. Absolutely -- I should at least warn people when they try to exit the drawing view.
Comment · 3 years ago
That is not an unfair assessment. Hopefully 1.0 irons out the kinks.
Comment · 3 years ago
TIL
Comment · 3 years ago
Currently working on the ability to copy and paste the underlying blocks into your own editor (with owner’s permission) —- big believer in popping the hood!
Long term dream is to have the HTML output look good enough that people can edit at both WYSIWYG and code levels.
Comment · 3 years ago
Mobile Chrome on what OS?
Comment · 3 years ago
I love kids' mmm.page sites
Re: laggy. I know... 1.0 introduced new features but also inefficiencies. The cost of working on something solo. Releasing a patch soon.