I've been through similar "searching" efforts and concluded the same.
What about working in legal or medical software, since those industries will never go anywhere? Or any other industry that is boring.
What about working in legal or medical software, since those industries will never go anywhere? Or any other industry that is boring.
- the products I wish to build will take time to do properly and I do not want to be in any kind of rush;
- based on my research, I believe these products could be good earners; however, it will take time and the majority of the revenue will be from the long tail;
- this kind of activity is high risk and I treat it as such. What this means, in practice, is that I put in my 4 hours of focused coding every morning and then go do other, less risky activities;
My experience has taught me to prefer transactional business models. Consultative business models spring from the dark side of The Force ;-).
As a vague teaser: one of the products is a SaaS modernization of a classic desktop database/application dev program complete with a recreation of its programming language; and the other is a game based on the premise of "what is an episode of sleep paralysis and waking dreams like?" I'm excited to be working on both but I have my expectations very firmly in check.
I'm picking up what you're laying down and think this could be brilliant, especially given several trends in both tech and market demand today.