I wouldn't worry about that, we have clear conditions that need to be met before we release a username [1]. It's meant to prevent name-squatting, not take usernames away from actual users. Although I do want to point out that GitHub also has this [2], it's just worded differently and doesn't outline what they consider "inactive".
What's an "active project"? OP says they discovered that their account had been renamed by having their workflow break. What kind of activity was OP regularly engaging in that depended on OP's account existing with the original name but did not flag OP's account as active?
I was lucky and found a small little gem on 1kprojects.com that turned itself into a nice little profitable side-project in 5 weeks (not linking to it because i don't want to seem like I'm advertising). Making half my monthly salary at my day job from it.
Sometimes it's just the simplest, least technical and gimmicky things that make money.
- Yes, the domain area was something that I was interested in already, but not necessarily practised.
- Quite honest, I chose it purely on price and the design of the items bought. The dev put in effort to get everything designed nicely.
- No, not at the time. It was a rails project so quality was not considered since its too easy to add on/rewrite where needed
- Got customer lists, source code + design source, social media pages, analytics, payment profiles, domain.
- I had a network locally that I knew I could sell to. I sold hard and 3 big agencies are now using it at a decent monthly fee.
- Definitely! I'm scouring 1k daily now and have found a few other gems.
"I had a network locally that I knew I could sell to"
I suspect this is the key to success in most smaller startups. Instead of focusing on getting 0.01% of a global market go for 10% of very local/focused market.
Thank you very much for your answer! Both the most predictable and the most interesting thing IMO is the factor of your existing network in the success of the product. More and more I'm seeing the compound returns of network reach in the careers of my peers who have spent their entire lives working with large teams/customer bases. If I had to restart my career today, I would spend the first 5-10 years in enterprise and then go startup, instead of the reverse.
Wishing you the best – really great to have an income stream like that, buying you room to make even more successful bets.
Just to clarify since you are responding like you authored the original post. Are you also the `johnnyrockit` account and just signed in under `gketuma`?
Well, probably not. OP said they make half their monthly salary from it. That site makes $300. Maybe OP is in a poorer country and makes $600 as a software engineer, and uses a Mac.
They did post about it three years ago, so it seems linked to them. But I'd wait for OP to confirm: the person posting is not OP and may just be guessing based on OP's post history and having searched 1k projects.
Bah, go ahead and link! you've demonstrated good will already by withholding the link ... but now I (and I'm sure we) are curious about it, if you're willing to share :)
Just to clarify since you are responding like you authored the original post. Are you also the `johnnyrockit` account and just signed in under `gketuma`?
Wow, didn't know about this site. Thanks for the referral. 1kprojects.com seems to have a better list of active projects than sideprojectors.com , which is the only site I know of where people sell or barter side projects.
Just to clarify since you are responding like you authored the original post. Are you also the `johnnyrockit` account and just signed in under `gketuma`?
The best investment I ever made was purchasing an old banged up Porsche 911T from a movie studio and keeping it garaged for nearly 13 years. I sold it for nearly 70 times the amount I bought it for.
