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>Looking back, how do you feel about your slate of past projects?

I feel like I learned something valuable from all of them.

The ones I'm most proud of are TinyPilot, my book, and my blogging course (in that order). Those are, uncoincidentally, the ones where I found product-market fit, whereas the rest never really achieved that.

TinyPilot was business-oriented by mistake. When I initially made it, I thought the market was entirely hobbyists who would rather make a DIY KVM than buy a $600 enterprise-y device. As I continued working on it, I found that my customers were much more interested in paying a higher price for a pre-made device than saving money with a DIY solution.

But yeah, I think the fact that it appealed to businesses made it more viable than my other business attempts that were consumer-focused.

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