I do give this author praise for actually being transparent.

> In total, I had $8.2k in profit on $16.3k in revenue. That was my total income for the year, which is obviously not enough to support a family, but my wife also works, and we have savings/investments.

Self bootstrapping is not for the weak. At the height of the "indie grind set", you would get all of these "indie developers" raiding your social media feeds with click bait shit like "I bootstrapped my project and earned 100M pre-revenue11!1!!!1"

In reality, a very small minority even make a living self bootstrapping. It’s quite literally the lottery.

Author in this case clearly has fallback (rich/working partners, savings, and ofc probably still has $ from TinyPilot sale).

Unfortunately, for the lot of us. You end up working for shitty Fortune 500 company, work on useless/mindless shit, grind for 8 hrs, collect paycheck, eat, sleep, and repeat.

No unions to have our backs when incompetent management wants to cater to shareholders. No stability. Maybe get laid off for vague reason. Find another shitty job and hope for less shitty management.