Chasing the money, not an idea.

I've spent, and still spend, a lot of time trying to think of SaaS ideas that would be profitable, fun to build, and within my skillset to accomplish. After years of following successful founders on Twitter, indulging in every start-up podcast I could find, and reading numerous business-minded books (let's be honest, I listened to them 🤣) - I found myself convinced and chasing this idea of a single product that would generate revenue.

It was met with dead-end after dead-end. Which is fair. Building a business isn't easy.

So, I took a look at the skills I've developed over my career and decided to build something around that to see if it would generate revenue. It was an agency. A dime-a-dozen business idea, but it worked! I've made more money on the internet (and it isn't a lot yet) in the last month with this endeavor than I have in two years of trying to build a product.

I'd convinced myself that this was taking the easy way out, but agencies are inherently difficult. There's a lot of work that has to be done, constantly, to keep things moving forward. It isn't all programming work and it isn't generating millions, but it's generating some- and that's more than I've ever done before.

I guess I'm writing this to further convince myself I'm making the right move. It's the only move that has generated any income, and by that metric, it's currently the winning one.