every time I tell certain people in my life about the latest thing I'm working on, the *first* thing they ask me is "are you going to sell it?"
to which the answer is always: NO
- marketing is hard and stupid
- it's not useful or novel enough to possibly be worth selling as an entrepreneur
- that would mean trying to do a Startup, which is Right Out
- what gave you the impression that I was doing this for money anyway
@ellied I get this sometimes with crafts and stuff, ime it’s a way for people to insinuate that they like and want the thing I’m making and would consider buying it from me (but only if it’s cheap)
one way I’ve found to get people to stop is to say “it’d have to be really expensive” and then when they ask, give the price including all the labour and such, which inevitably ends up being costly
and then they say “wtf” and I say “yeah that’s why I’m not selling it”
I'm gonna start asking them this question whenever they make themselves a meal or put together a nice outfit
the most important part of this is that we desperately need less for-profit tech in the world right now. you're literally asking me "hey, it looks like you're trying to do something nice, have you considered being part of the problem you're trying to help solve instead?"
I was recently asked this about fucking Teamech.
DUDE. literally the entire point of Teamech is that it helps do a thing that is usually poisoned by commercialism (IoT) but has nothing to do with money at all.
also, Teamech is a personal shakedown project in a language I'm new to (Rust) and is therefore something that no one in their right mind would use for serious purposes.
@elomatreb well, chalk that up as another problem that I'm trying to help solve instead of add to. :|