I understand that this type of post is useful to many people, especially younger folks looking for career direction. I'm turning 43 this week and I've been down that road many times, so this post doesn't mean much to me.

This is not a complaint about the post, but about Hacker News. If Hacker News had subsections like Reddit does, this post would belong under inspiration/self-help. I would unsubscribe from that section and I wouldn't see it. As things stand, these posts take up too many slots on the one and only, one-size-fits-all front page of a site called Hacker News.

I find it a bit ironic that Hacker News is so unhackable / uncustomizable.

"The first time I held a build of Beeline RTD in my hand, after getting it from my developers, I literally jumped up and down at the though that this app had come out of my head and I could now put it in my pocket and use it whenever I wanted."

I find it contradictory that you use "my developers" and "out of my head" in the same sentence.

When I bring this idea up with the most successful business people I know, they say that making a successful business is what they want. Truly, they'll have no trouble pivoting with that opinion, since what they want is to make a winning company, not any particular company.

Great post! I build things often to fulfill the needs and wants that I have, and in doing so I learn, grown and happen across ideas I wouldn't have had without building something in the first place.

"Scratch your own itch".

"I’d be humbled if you followed me on Twitter."

Insta-followed. Can we please make THIS be the typical tagline at the end of every article instead of the aggressive "you should follow me"?

It's a good goal if you can support yourself while you do it. Otherwise, it remains but a dream.

I need more problems in my life