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Admittedly, $500k revenue over almost ten years with a “small team” probably isn’t something to get too excited about.

I'd have kept my keyboard shut if the implication presented was "work and little revenue is bad business", but here I'm seeing "no work and no profit is bad business".

I’m not seeing the no work part. He has other people working for him. It’s one thing to have a passion project you enjoy. Having something that seems to be at least aspirational in terms of being a business that is burning you out? Seems time to move on.

Admittedly, the paragraph is not very upfront about it, but to me:

> My pulling back started in ~2023

this sounds like significantly reducing the amount of work.

Okay, this could also be read as a complaint that the revenue is not enough for profit with any scaling down.

It's his side hustle, not his only form of income. With that context, it's way more impressive.

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