Running a Small Software Biz

I've had a couple of friends ask if running your own company is as "glamorous" as they've heard. It certainly can be fun, especially when you hear from customers that your software is "Awesome!" and "Saved my bacon when my hard drive died". I don't know how Edison felt when he first saw them putting up streetlights successfully in his town (and not that I'm Edison or anything), but I have a small inkling of how gratifying it can be to see people use something you crafted.

It can be a little annoying to deal with accounting, legal issues, and basically all the little things that go into running a business. But all in all, yeah, it's pretty amazing to work on a little team that builds awesome products that people seem to genuinely like. I wouldn't trade this job for anything else in the whole world.