I shipped 0 products in 7 years. Then I shipped 2 in 6 months. Here's what changed.

For 7 years, I was the dev companies called when their app was on fire. I'd come in, fix the architecture, ship the feature, leave. Senior dev by day, "I'll start my own thing soon" by night. The thing is, I never started it. Not really. I had Notion docs full of ideas. Half-finished Figma files. A graveyard of npx create-next-app folders on my SSD. Every weekend I'd "start" something and Sunday night I'd close the laptop, vaguely frustrated, and open Slack on Monday for the client work. This ye