Even though freelancing gigs take up most of my time, I like to take an hour or two here and there to work on
Threddie, mostly on nights and weekends.
Threddie was launched just over a year ago and it's the closest thing I've ever had to a successful business: was featured in a lot of blogs, got great reviews, gained a lot of users and some of those even went as far as becoming paying customers.
The first six months were pretty frantic, between the launch, the re-launch and the (mis)adventures with a couple local angel investors. Threddie evolved, but in so doing it kind of lost its focus. And so did I. For two whole months, I wrote not a single line of code for my little app. Users came, became customers, left. Then my transition from salaryman to freelancer became my only worry and Threddie was left on autopilot.
Still, every so often, my paypal would ring. People kept using Threddie. People kept paying for it. Every so often, I'd be reminded that someone out there was finding my app useful. Someone who cared enough to give me insightful feedback. So last May I got a moleskine just for taking notes on what would become Threddie v3. I wrote and I drew. And then I coded.
It's September now.
V3 is still nowhere near finished. I'm a freelancer with not a lot of time to spare on side projects. But still my paypal rings. Still someone lights up my monitoring page. That's who I'm coding for. Thank you. You keep my startup dream alive.
