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I love threads like this - while I've stopped sharing my numbers in public, I've watched folks blindly copy my uptime monitor's landing pages and then close up shop 2-3 months later when they haven't gotten rich fast.

At this point, being comfortably full-time employed and using that income to let me play all-in-one Founder/Designer/Engineer/Customer Support over the past few years is the moat.

OnlineOrNot (https://onlineornot.com), for what it's worth.




I see you in a lot of threads and really appreciate sharing your experience in the comments / blog :)


Exactly.

1. Being comfortably full-time employed is a fantastic mental, social and financial moat for bootstrappers.

2. Copycats assume that they can just throw up anything without focusing on sales, quality customer service, operations and financial discipline.




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