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4 kids 6 and younger is one child every two years. My youngest is 6 months. It's an aggressive pace but hardly unreasonable.
We wanted to have all of our kids together so they could be friends. And it makes the parenting window much shorter (25 years until they are all adults and moving out). Some people spread their kids out and have kids in the home for 30-35 years.
On the other hand, native app performance is second to none when done well, and if you have dedicated developers to manage a separate deployment from the web interface then you're going to have a better time going native.
People use Google to search Reddit, not Reddit.
I have found Google to be the absolute best way to search for tweets on Twitter. Twitter search is attrocious.
I do search for things on YouTube directly, but that's still Google Search.
Pieter is responsible for everything - product, design, sales, marketing, documentation, customer support, etc.
At a job, you do your job and someone else does the other jobs. Less responsibility, less income.
I do recommend starting something like this on the side, and learning all of the skills listed above. In 5 years or less you can have a side project that makes more than your job with only an hour or two a day.
Revenue = Profit - Loss
It should be:
Revenue = Profit + Loss (as Profit = Revenue - Loss).
Otherwise, cool!
There are two forms of media - free and paid. Free media is funded with advertising. Paid media gets paid for by the customer.
The benefit of free media is distribution. It can go anywhere, cheaply, and impact the largest audience. This is a common model for TV & large YouTube channels.
The benefit of paid media is income. Generally, something that is paid for earns more than something that is free with advertising. However, with paid media there's a significant decrease in distribution. If the decrease is large enough, the creator would have earned more by putting it out for free with advertising to increase distribution.
Now, here's the other catch, the benefit of mass distribution is power. Power of perception, mostly. You are now a voice for the vision you are trying to put into the world. You're impacting the way people think, and you're causing them to learn what you want to teach them.
Open source developers of large projects do a chronically poor job at capturing the upside of distribution. That's the issue.
They simply need to have advertising to fund their "media" that has a large distribution, or they need to charge for their "media". Or a hybrid approach works too – ads for freely distributed software and charge for proprietary or managed software.