Hey taggers, I have stopped being a full time entrepreneur and got a job with a startup that pays the bills: scaling and automations engineer with modernfeed.com, which is being rebranded under a domain which I must not name, at least for the next six weeks.
Confession time: I have not done a lot for patch tag the last two months, other than think and answer emails. (Well, I did a few tweaks to gitit and filestore, which will hopefully pay off eventually here.)
Two months ago is when I decided, I Must Get Paid, and monetizing patch tag was going to take longer than I could wait. Month 1 (June) I spent mainly in new york trying to cobble together a startup that merited enough VC money to live on, with a team that could do it full time. I felt like a scrappy screenplay writer on the mean streets of hollywood (except this was new york) pitching to producer after producer, living in a basement while I reached for my dreams, wheeling and dealing… except that this didn’t have a hollywood ending… I just kind of lost steam and said, enh.
Month 2 (July) I spent hunting for a paying job, bouncing between chicago, san francisco and L.A.
Funny thing, now I actually DO work in hollywood!
Now that I am gainfully employed again, I hope that I will actually be able to start investing some energy into patch tag again, on nights and weekends.
From what I hear, the baby that has been keeping up the other half of the partnership may be approaching the end of the “cry all night” stage as well.
So, we shall see!
Congrats on your new gig! It is good to know what is going on with patch-tag development and that the months Long blog silence doesn’t mean the project has been abandoned (though I know you have remained active on the mailing list in the meanwhile). Thanks for the update.
Congratulations indeed! Thanks for letting us know what’s up.
I hope you manage to get enough cash and time to develop this further. One thing I’ve noticed is that web projects have to be full time commitments before they build real momentum. On the other hand, trying to develop without knowing where next month’s rent is coming from doesn’t help.