Quit building little one-day hobby projects that don't do anything useful, and instead build software that people with money will pay for. It's not that difficult a concept to understand, yet every day you see another half dozen unjustifiable little web startups appearing with no hope of ever making money.
- Build something good.
- charge money for it.
- Sorted.S3stat pays my rent, and it took a weekend to build. It's dead boring, but there's a market for it so people pay money.
Blogabond is still fun to play with 4 years in, was technically hard when I built it, and thousands of people use it and love it. When I tried putting ads on it, it brought in maybe two bucks a day.
So yeah, boring stuff makes you money, even if it's not that difficult.
As a side note, my goodness please tell me you're putting more time and effort into S3Stat. I think you are seriously undervaluing it. Dressing it up with something prettier than webstats would, in my mind help you pay for a lot more than rent.
Good work.
Good to hear I'm doing my part to put a roof over the head of a fellow hacker ;]