Three years, three products nobody wanted, and I nearly quit before this one. What changed wasn't my coding, it was that for the first time I built something a specific person had literally asked me for, instead of something I thought was clever. The number is small, I know a grand isn't 'made it', but after watching two builds die at zero it feels enormous, because it's proof that a stranger will pay me for something I made. The previous failures weren't wasted, they taught me the one lesson th...