💡 think bigger (#252)

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+title: 💡 think bigger
+slug: think-bigger
+date: 2021-12-05
+topic:
+    name: life
+    icon: 😎
+---
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+Recently, I've had two separate conversations with other developers that made realize I need to think bigger.
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+The first was a conversation with [James Perkins][james]. We were talking about his next project, _Am I In A Meeting_, a service that will change the color of a [Hue][hue] light based on your calendar availability. I told him that I was impressed that he was already diving into another SaaS project so quickly after [Roll Your Tweet][roll-your-tweet]. In his response, he contrasted his projects with my open source library releases, and it got me thinking.
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+The second conversation took place with Corbin Crutchley, better known as [crutchorn][crutchcorn] online. He is wrapping up a [Gatsby][gatsby] to [Next.js][next] conversion and was walking me through some of the tough parts. Corbin shared that he dove deep into the code on this project, and created a bunch of small libraries to help himself out, and he pointed out how that was similar to the packages I've been publishing.
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+Now, the purpose of me pointing out these conversations is not to throw shade at any of these guys, _James and Corbin are my buds_!
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+But their comments made me realize that I'm focusing too much on the meta. I tend to create free and open source libraries that solve relatively minor problems. While these libraries make developers' lives a little bit easier, it's incredibly difficult to generate income from open source projects.
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+If I want to begin making money online, I need to think bigger. I need to create SaaS products that solve larger problems, or at least problems large enough that people are willing to pay for solutions.
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+I'll be including this newfound resolve to think bigger in my New Year's Resolutions. Stay tuned for that post, along with my _2021 in review_.
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+[james]: https://twitter.com/james_r_perkins
+[crutchcorn]: https://twitter.com/crutchcorn
+[gatsby]: https://gatsbyjs.org
+[next]: https://nextjs.org
+[hue]: https://www.philips-hue.com
+[roll-your-tweet]: https://rollyourtweet.com