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So funny thing at one point I was actually going to charge for Livewire. That's funny to hear me say that right now, but you've not even that long before larrikin. I mean way before larrikin, but even right before Larrick on I was like really running the numbers and thinking, you know, all right, how much can I make on this thing?

Like put a lot of work into this basically quit my job and haven't worked in like four or five months. I've like to make some money redeem some of this value. Okay, I'll charge for live or that's the thing. I'm not going to try to like raise a board or do patreon stuff. Like that doesn't work. I'm just going to charge for it, you know charging for software.

That's the thing people do so I messaged Adam Ladd and I basically had this plan and I really believe I stood to make like 15 grand. I think I could have maybe. Now in hindsight, I probably definitely couldn't anybody know I would have been 15 grand. And you know, I even knew that myself like 15 grand is not worth it for the work.

I put into it 15 grand. No way. I'd rather just not have that money and has something that everybody can use and grow it's an open-source, you know project I mentioned I asked a couple people for advice and one of those people was mr. Adam wave and and he gave it to me straight. Like I knew he would you said something like.

Dude, you're going to make like $200 to something. Like I don't know what he said maybe more than that. I think that's what he was saying about patreon. He's like, yeah, if you pay trying to make $200 if you charge for it, you know, whatever basically somewhere in this this midst of him, like giving it to me straight was like but don't underestimate the value of you know, your reputation of like building building.

Your reputation is like a open-source maintainer contributor person who created something pretty big. That stuck with me. Those are not his words, but sort of kind of that's what he was saying and that stuck with me for sure big time that that yeah, right. I mean this seems so obvious, but I had to be reminded that like.

that. This is this is a big step for me like this is this is a real contribution something that if I execute well, if I if it's if it's as useful as I think it could be and I execute it. Well could be something that most layer of elapsed use, you know, that would be crazy and it's kind of it's not just like a little like package, you know, it's a it's a way of developing it's a system.

It's a framework unto itself. That's pretty big deal. So. This could kind of open some doors for me. And I don't know he reminded me of that and that that just was a good reminder for me. That's all I needed now is like yeah, you're right. You know what? Yeah reputation is a thing. I guess. I'm my mind.

I felt like I sort of had that reputation of felt like it's like sort of I don't know if. If you're putting like laravel celebrities and tears, I'm probably like a second or third-tier celebrity and that's what I feel like, you know in terms. I don't know for using my follower can be like screw humility.

This is like how I picture myself based on Twitter followers, and I don't know just general like my connections with people in the community whatever but I think I'm at that level and I just sort of felt like that was. Heil a high enough level or something, I don't know but. He reminded me that there's you know, there's more to be had there's more to be reputed for I don't know there's more of a reputation to have more doors will open if I contribute something of value to the community more than just my little tip tweets and blog posts and stuff like that.

So anyway, I'm saying all this because I'm reflecting on this. I'm about to travel to Europe for full-stack EU and this is funny because there's like lots of people. But first I've never been to Europe and a lot of my family. My mom is never been in Europe. My dad has ne