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alyssaxuu | karma 180 | avg karma 2.69 · 2019-06-17 21:13:58+00:00

I know about his story with Figma, and AFAIK he managed to push it forward through the Thiel Fellowship (which I've considered myself too).

Honestly as I've mentioned in the post I've been quite excited about the product (specially when I managed to make the MVP useful enough to replace AE for simple GIFs, I even use the tool for that purpose) and my initial plan was definitely to make this happen, but I haven't really seen a solid way to go about it full-time without taking a huge risk, specially at my age.

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Vomzor | karma 609 | avg karma 4.01 · 2019-06-18 02:06:35+00:00

Your age is exactly when you should be taking huge risks.

throwawaywindev | karma 89 | avg karma 2.47 · 2019-06-17 22:21:48

Take the risk! It’s clear that you have a very rare combination of design, programming, communication, and marketing skills. The sky is the limit :)

lixtra | karma 2274 | avg karma 2.5 · 2019-06-17 22:48:25

If you want to stay independent and go(?) open source then going on patreon might work. At least it works modestly for others[1].

[1] https://www.patreon.com/andrewrk

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marton78 | karma 927 | avg karma 2.73 · 2019-06-18 06:59:20+00:00

Taking risks is only going to get harder the older you get. Now or never!