My Third Year as a Solo Developer
The author&#x27;s success commercializing something that <i>he needed</i> chimed with me.<p>I feel like this is a common thing - kinda like the old adage you&#x27;d hear at school that goes something like &quot;if you have a question about something, chances are at least a couple of other people in class have the same question&quot;.<p>I wonder how many startups that are &quot;think of it as an uber-for-....&quot; are there because of actual genuine &amp; real needs that people have, or just that people think will make them rich.<p>A decade-plus ago I was in the same situation as the author - a problem that <i>I had</i> and no obvious simple solution that I could find.  I ended up admitting that the thing I was looking for didn&#x27;t exist, so I made it (website in this case so very small risk&#x2F;outlay).  It made a boat load of income from ad revenue back when CPMs were better (still exists these days but revenue is way way down on what it was - perhaps less than &lt;5% - and my regular work salary these days  totally eclipses even what it was at its peak anyway).<p>There must be so many of these sorts of stories on HN - someone scratching their own itch, only to find out that others have the same.