[s1artibartfast]

> that anything that spending significant amounts of your time on anything that assists others with building their thing is a total waste of time. Tech or otherwise.

I would with your sentiment if you said helping indie devs wasn’t profitable opposed to a waste of time. There is real value in supporting a community, you just have to know when you are doing charity work.

[purple-again]

I agree with this interpretation. The article OP experienced a real and true 'failure' because his goal was income generation and the project didn't provide that. The guys he handed it off to may have a goal of just being a recognized name in the space (clout?) and so consider their time and effort to be a success.

The whole one mans garbage is another mans treasure taken from another angle.