[toumhi]

I completely understand for your neglect of Appointment Reminder. I've also had my share of projects I'd start but lose interest in it because, well, I was not consumed by the problem I was solving.

So during the years I worked sequentially (or sometimes at the same time) on a gift certificate template gallery, a travel insurance comparator, a body-mass-index calculator website, a file sharing solution for businesses targeted at the french market.

The reasoning behind all these projects was to make "passive income". And by running multiple websites I would make a nice income from them all combined.

After developing and marketing the last of these projects (file sharing one, post-mortem here: http://www.sparklewise.com/post-mortem-5-mistakes-i-made-wit... ) I realized that the most important thing is not to have a "good idea" but to work on a problem you want to solve and with people you can relate to or at least that you enjoy working with. That's why I now focus on serving SaaS businesses, because that's actually something I care about and will likely care about for years to come.

Thanks for all the transparency Patrick and for setting an example for the rest of the HN crowd. And good luck with the fatherhood :-)