But this blog post was awesome, raw, and captured something that so few of us can really relate to.
Dude grinds for 10 years, keeps grinding, doesn't know where to go but will probably keep grinding.
"Twicsy, you son of a bitch. You frustrate me so. I love you, but oh how I hate to love you."
Shine on, buddy. Best of luck!
4chan is only one month older. It's like we're cousins.
How many of those do you sell, anyway (if you don't mind me asking)?
But, I am happy to be considered your cuz, even if it's the one you always beat up and lock in the shed.
Though ultimately I think those kinds of projects are also the ones that often lead people to massive success too, because a lot of projects that are eventually successful takes long enough to get there that you'd give up if they didn't have that seductive effect.
The problem, of course, is figuring out when enough is enough (though the absence of commercial success is not necessarily a good yardstick, if it's still fun)
Maybe OP should try to publish an ebook on his 10 year adventure?
Maybe not the ten years part, but I imagine that a decent number of people here can relate to this (i.e. working on a startup for awhile and having a love/hate relationship with it while it is not yet a financial success.)
Kudos to the author, best wishes for the future!