[zrail]

This is a topic that I've thought a ton about, from the perspective of being an entrepreneur. I have a full time job right now but even for side projects or any product that I may choose to sell in the future, I've decided that it's not going to have a service at it's core. If it has a service component it can't be in the critical path for the software to work. I.e. I might host a gem server or something for paying customers but not an API server.

I just can't square my own working style, my need to do things outside of work, and my desire for ownership of the things I work on with the idea that I need to be on-call forever for a thing. It's just too much stress.