Better yet: keep going to therapy and start lifting weights!

Can you elaborate on this? My gut agrees with you 100%, but I can't puzzle it out.

I think you can - there is a link to sign up for the newsletter at the bottom of the page

Author here: yes I have an email list here (infrequent) that I'll post a message to once chapters 3 and 4 are ready: https://tinyletter.com/tomcritchlow

Nice!!

A high tolerance for risk

And a willingness to accept consequence.

You should, boats are rad. In my experience it won't be as cheap as you think - but it is still awesome!

I just want to add to the chorus of people saying they would pay for this. I too would be delighted to pay for this app. Looks AWESOME, thank you for creating it!

That is AWESOME! Nice work!

If I can offer a button nitpick - I suggest "Try it out for free!" in big text, and "Version 1.5.248.1, 2016-04-26" in small text. Maybe as simple as wrapping the version info in a <small> tag.

Thanks a lot, I'm pretty proud of it!:) That's a good point, the version isn't really the important part, will do.

Wow I just checked and you already updated - fast work!

Also this is a really nice piece of work, great job

Yeah, it was simple enough to change and VS was already open, so I figured why not change it right away... Thanks for the kind words!

Certainly not with that attitude.

Writing software - even hard, complex software - isn't even remotely comparable to a space program.

I agree 100%. It has gotten easier to turn a side project into a business.

My take is that it has gotten easier enough that fewer folks are pursuing VC, opting to bootstrap instead. It's not that fewer side projects are happening - more side projects are happening. Fewer of them need VC money to succeed/scale/generate meaningful revenue, so VCs are seeing fewer side projects.