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I'd like to play there with some spare cash...

First, big thanks to some HN guys to ping me so early. I had to shut down my coupon-based links for the time being.

Anyways I should thank those hackers, it looks someone did a promo action to my software here on HN ;-)

I'm ordinary man and a hacker. I personally don't care what I wear. I prefer comfortable clothing. I don't care and I don't have problem with it. But women care and they see it as a big issue. I'm reading the blog just from curiosity to see how it looks from the other side.

But still I think DryDrop may be useful for some folks who want to use GAE for hosting. See the FAQ on http://drydrop.binaryage.com/#faq

I want to have ultimate control. That is why I'm not using my work email.

My story: I'm 31, I left comfortable game-engine programmer seat at AAA gaming company because I wanted to build my own products (have been already hacking on browser extensions during evenings for past 8 months). Had savings just for 3-4months. Reduced my burn rate by moving to a very cheap rent. Started doing web-dev freelancing to save money, my goal was to have at least 1 year of runway. After 8 months of cheap life, I finally stated working on my own startup idea (it was basically http://about.me, but with more technical page builder). My GF left me after 2 months and after next 8 moths I started to have some disputes with my co-founder and few weeks later I gave up. I started to work remotely for SF-based startup. The goal was to learn how to "do it right" and to earn money for my next trial. It took it to me next 6 months to recover financially (and socially a bit). After then I started hacking on TotalFinder during the evenings and one year later finally I made it.

You may read about my last year here: http://blog.binaryage.com/the-second-year-of-binaryage

Unfortunately I have to add, that with non-entrepreneurial spouse it would be probably much harder to take it off the ground. It makes sense. Most women expect your time/money investment into partnership/family. Also most of them is averse to risk taking. Why she should stay with you when she would do better with fine salaried non-stressed guy who works 8to5? Better he hates his job, because he will be rushing home for recovery.

You need to make your wife co-investor/partner in building your product, she must invest at least your time she acquired by marriage or she has to help out other way to make similar contribution. So we reduced this problem to the problem of looking for the right co-founder, which is very hard problem to solve anyway :-)

if (you publish binary of DW) then {you have to provide sources of DW under GPL}

Simply it does not apply to in-house (non-published) work. You are fine to keep it closed-source.

And report back.

what? global warming?

A simple reason why people should learn to code os because then they get independent, they don't need to work that much, machines will do.

I will work hard to make TotalFinder the best Finder addon ever :-)

my first commercial app TotalFinder seems to be covering my living expenses soon (launched a week ago)

Also playing with the idea of using Google Docs as ad-hoc CMS for simple client projects.