I just entertained the thought that since so many startups fail, we need a lot more "going into the funnel". More startups created. All around me i see incubators and div stuff meant to help startups, but not many things that lower the threshold for actually starting and creating new ones. Maybe we need to "lure" or nudge people into them.
I think its on the side for more reasons than marketing. In our community we have people that have a small beer app for hobby reasons that isnt meant to take off, so its designed to generate some revenue and be on the side for ever. But yeah, for some projects that want to be bigger, marketing is an issue (Although the founder of this forum would argue that if marketing is the problem, then really the product is the problem, since internet makes genuinely good things spread so easily by word of mouth)
Yeah the tools we use and writing and everything is scrappy. I have a weird thought about it being an asset in todays world where more and more things are so glossy and AI generated. Just makes me want to see some spelling errors. Some dirty and real stuff. But i might be wrong. I dont want to be slick though, or proper, i want to be as dirty and scrappy as a SideProject is when youre bogged down by life and work and it all
Love your way of engaging by the way, direct but not without empathy!