What Should You Do with Your Crappy Little Services Business?
I tried a slightly different approach - doing services work that turned into a business to try to underwrite doing product development.<p>The idea was to do enough services work to fund living costs while working on product development.<p>But the problem is that customers are (understandably) demanding when you do paid work for them, so you spend your entire time doing client work and never get to focus on the product development.<p>So you hire staff / team members so you can focus on the product development.<p>But then you have to spend even more time managing a team and running the business. So you still never get to spend any time doing product development. And at this point, it becomes difficult to change course.<p>Based on my experience, I think it is very difficult to build a product when doing client services work. It takes disproportionate effort to get and stay focused and you have a mountain of distractions. The services work becomes all-consuming.<p>[edit for clarity]