I am a sucker for designing NEW sites, with NEW content and most importantly cool new development.  There is something fun and interesting about the challenges involved with starting a  new site and getting people to notice it.  I find that the interest starts to wane after a while.  It is like my first forums, I just loved tinkering with phpBB and buildig addons trading posts and getting members to register.  However that love affair died after a while and now I rarely post on any forums, and have a hard time even logging on to my own sites on a daily basis.  In fact I sold most of them a while back.

The same was with my first arcade site.  It took a bit to get it online and when I sold it I made a profit, but I would have made a lot more if I just kept it and kept working on it, but it just wasn’t interesting any more.

That all said, I am not sure that this new project that I am currently working on is going to have the same problem.  Sure it is a new site, but it is also in a crowded niche with a lot of other sites out there.  This is a site of love more than anything.  Even the custom app that I am in the process of building is more for personal use than anything else.  I do hope that other people will use it, but if they don’t I am sure that I am going to get more than enough use out of it for myself to warrant the time and money that I am putting into it.

Afterall, I do have a day job, and everything that I do online is more about a hobby, something to keep my mind off of the day job when I am not there than anything else.  As a plus it is a hobby that keeps my mind sharp and makes a bit of money too.  Much better than all of those hobbies that I could have that ultimately just costs money.

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