I am *not pissing in the wind

I'm working sooo very hard, and it's so very much fun.

So many hours, doing the exact same damn thing as I used to, build data warehouses for juuuust billion dollar companies.

Only this time it's on servers I own, writing code on my time, in the Azure cloud, which is already production, just need to buy the licenses.

My day:

Wake up, go for a walk, check on last night's progress, code.

Play video games, get bored, code.

Take a shower, code.

Take a nap, code.

Drink and watch tv, or drink and code?

Why is it different?

Because it's for myself.

I'm coding my own private software offering, which is essentially a "tech startup".

I can see how the startup culture craze could go to one's head.

Companies have been paying me for years to build this for them.

I've distilled the last 13 years of my professional life in Franchising, for membership recurring revenue based service models. I've done the math, it's good for the consumer, great for the business.

I've got the juice, and the (secret) sauce.

Downside is that my secret sauce is made of of Microsoft SSIS packages, which can be reverse engineered.

So what did I do? I architected my private offering to be easily reverse engineered.

No self-respecting corporation, at this revenue level, is going to let their business logic be hosted (essentially held hostage) by a software developer.

I've got two options: Licensing (hosted hostage), or Full Install (bulk payday) with Licensing for upgrades.

hehe: Hosted is hostage, unless you have the source code