[donofrip]

I'm currently reading Founders at Work by Jessica Livingston (http://www.foundersatwork.com/), and one of the stories seems to apply to your dilemma.

If you have the chance I would suggest taking a look at chapter 3 which discusses Steve Wozniak's early days with Apple. He talks about his hesitation to leave HP where he was an engineer. At the same time, Jobs was pushing him to come over and work on their new venture full time. It wasn't until Wozniak realized (through a conversation with a friend) that he could move to Apple and continue to be an engineer did he agree to make the move. In the end, Woz knew he loved being an engineer, and he didn't think that the time and effort it would take to run/manage a company was something he would enjoy (in fact, he knew he would not like it).

It sounds like you love learning new programming languages, something that is not afforded you in your current venture's structure. Maybe you should consider bringing in a partner to help you manage the business while focus on programming. Or maybe you should hire a programmer to handle the routine stuff for your site. Either option could free-up a considerable amount of time that would allow you to again spend some time each week learning something new.

I'm not sure if that is an option, but it is something to work towards maybe.

[kickme444]

Hey, thank you so much for that link, I just bought the book. I think I would pursue redditgifts as more of a business if there were a business cofounder involved with me. As it is right now, the fundraising and monetization world is not something I feel very good at, though I am trying to learn about it time permitting. My main goal as it is is to just make redditgifts as cool and big as I can. We're growing at a very fast pace and I'm excited about it.