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I do pretty “small scale” work that has a fairly outsized impact on folks.

The app I released in January, currently has a bit over 600 users. I get one or two a day (plus, the odd scammer). It may accelerate, in the future, but the demographic is small. There’s only so many people that can use it.

I tested with 12,000 fake users. I suspect we won’t ever see half that. To many folks here, 12K is a rounding error.

But the ones that do use the app, get a top-shelf experience.

On another note, I have family that used to run a group home for kids that were made wards of the state (many terrible stories). He’s really good with kids, but he’s been an EE for the last couple of decades. Running the group home was very stressful, and emotionally wrenching, so the engineering was a cakewalk.



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