[adrianmn]

If you want to build a business and not side projects you need business development and marketing.

There is a bias(extremely wrong in my opinion) in HN against this and that product is everything but real world business doesn't work like that. Unless you have a viral product(which still needs marketing to reach critical mass) it is marketing that will make or brake it.

Also .io and other extensions might be trendy and fun to use but real businesses use .com . If you target end users they will hardly remember the tld of your website. How many services that end up in .io or other similar ones do you use?

[peterbe]

I know I know but why should one not try?

Remember a side-project is, at least in my case, something you work on OUTSIDE of regular work. I work on weekends, early mornings and late nights. When you only have about 5-10 hours per week you have to cut corners and do what little you can.

Also, in my case, I do everything myself. The client-side code, the server-side code, the optimization, the system administration, and last but not least, the marketing. It's not easy but I'll be damned if at least one of these can't become a success.