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From what I can see, his project so far consists of ideas with a vast scope that may or may not pan out and a strong belief in himself. >GAGOOT is a domain-less, server-to-server meshnet which offers a reimagined, members-only, ad-free, tracker-free, fingerprint-free, captcha-free, cookie-free, bloat-free, DDoS-proof, no-censorship approach to implementing a number of disparate functions, including search, social media, archiving, messaging, cloud computing, and distributed computing, each designed to provide anonymity, privacy, and freedom as first-class concerns rather than as mere afterthoughts. To me, this sounds suspiciously like someone with enough knowledge about how things work on the Internet to be confident that they can do better, but hasn't learned enough to understand how little he knows... it's the Dunning-Kruger effect in the wild. The problem (or feature) of knowledge is that there's always more knowledge and nuance behind what you think you know, and the details are what makes things work. All the services and functions he describes as parts of his system above were developed over decades by thousands of the brightest people in the world. Replacing all that with one good idea only one person has worked on is possible, but incredibly unlikely. Most importantly, all those things were developed by people who not only had good ideas but who did all the hard work to make them real. Ideas aren't worth money, results are. OP needs to stop counting on their project idea as a gateway to self sufficiency and realize that (sadly) they have to go back to work in the boring real world, even though working for an hour on their project would eventually produce more value than working a week at a day job. That sucks hard, but the truth is that without a track record or a working prototype to show off no one is going to pay OP for their project, period. That's just how the world works. I'm saying all this as another 50+ year old IT person who understands that it's getting harder to find new jobs and who is burned out on working as a cog in the machine. |
I've been building similar building blocks to this, and it's VERY hard and long and tedious work to make it actually happen. And yes, doing this kind of thing while employed full time is frustrating to no end, because everything takes 5x longer.
After 5 years, I have Dogma [1] (a metalanguage for building text and binary grammars) finished, and Concise Encoding [2] (an ad-hoc hierarchical data format) almost finished (it's been slowed by the fact that I needed to develop Dogma to describe it [3], and also from switching to Antlr for the text parsing). I expect that the bidirectional, multi-stream encrypted communications protocol that uses these technologies will be even more pain once I dig into it beyond the 6 months I've given it so far. And only THEN will I be able to make interesting things with it (such as a re-imagined file API alternative to POSIX).
Building this kind of stuff is a marathon with no end, and you absolutely can't do it unless you either are already independently wealthy, or you're leveraging your daytime job to that end.
[1] https://dogma-lang.org/
[2] https://concise-encoding.org/
[3] https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/cb... and https://github.com/kstenerud/concise-encoding/blob/master/ct...