“At the time, my side project, now a side business, was making about half of what my senior software engineer position at $CRYPTO_EXCHANGE was netting me, before theft taxes.”
Keygen started as a midnight commit and ran on nights and weekends for years. By 2019 it paid half a senior engineer’s salary, a second baby was coming and the founder was burned out. Two jobs is not a side project. It is a slow way to lose both. The hard part was never the code. It was saying so out loud at home.