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So you actually wrote the article at the same time you started your first side project, and expect people to follow your @#$% goldmine example?

As any software developer knows, projects fail. And 90% of the time they do not fail from technical reasons, as you found out (the hard way). Any developer worth his salt can make a project work from the technical point of view, but only few have a great idea that they can actually market. It's not the programming that matters, it's what you sell with that program. And you have to know how and what to sell more than you know how to program.



I think you missed the point. It was meant to be inspirational to those who WANT to. There are no valid excuses if you WANT to.




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