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This was a good blog post. I started wikiaudio believing the hype around "do something" and make a business out of it later. This assumption has turned out to be a complete crock of shit in my case. If you want to build a business online I would suggest you do your best to make sure "business" is integral to it's dna before you get started, and try and validate as ruthlessly as possible. I still enjoy the site and feel a sense of accomplishment, but I have no desire to continue writing hundreds of tutorials (and spend literally hundreds if not thousands of hours in development), just to have it all fall on def ears with no income from any of it. From a "founder" of a failed online project I really enjoyed your blog post. I do think after a certain point is reached you have to accept defeat and look at the project as a means to another end (personal education, portfolio piece , etc)


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