I don't know who I am anymore and I can't tell anyone
Inspired by "I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone". My story is about the same. I think I'm at the stage that comes after the burning out. I'm a single, 30yo, systems architect at a quite known and popular Web company (top 30). I also have a strong open-source persona and pretty useful projects out there (overall around 2000 watchers, I guess). HN score of about 1400, all from feedback on projects I've released. I'm the guy who always get a crazy eyebrow raised when people hear I don't have my own start up yet. I get tons of offers from CTOs, CEOs and founders to co-found/participate, and I usually think of the people offering them as misguided and naive. And if we're anonymous, let me throw in that I used to be a hacker, cracker, around 13 years ago, when I was in high school. End background. I find myself waking up at 8:30am, at work at 9:30am, finishing up at 19:30-20:00pm and at h
Why it failed
Inspired by "I'm burning out and I can't tell anyone". My story is about the same. I think I'm at the stage that comes after the burning out. I'm a single, 30yo, systems architect at a quite known and popular Web company (top 30). I also have a strong open-source persona and pret
- Kind
- startup
- Status
- Shut down
- Inventor
- joedoe
- Ended
- 2012
- Source
- hackernews