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Thanks for reading!

> But, come on ... isn't it just a touch disingenuous to call this a bootstrap situation?

> I assume an ex-Google developer jettisoned with a decent safety net. Perhaps I'm wrong. But I have a very different idea of what bootstrapping is.

Yeah, I agree and wish I had a better term. I've heard people talking about "bootstrapping" a business with $200k+, and I roll my eyes.

I used to call these updates "My Xth Year as a Solo Developer" but that stopped making sense when I was working with a team.

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out of curiosity, which one is the bigger part of your "financial cushion" nowadays? is it still mostly the ex-Google income/savings or has the TinyPilot exit taken that place?
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It's mostly pre-TinyPilot money. A lot of my savings was in the S&P 500, which has been on an pretty insane run since 2018, so that grew a lot in the background.
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