Naheem

In the AI era, it is no longer so difficult to finance things from your own resources bootstrapped (except for promotion or hardware-intensive solutions).

I have always saved money and tried to do things myself (what I didn't know, I learned to do to save on financial costs).

Built my app with Lovable a few months ago. Launch went fine but since then I've had three separate production issues; auth breaking, database timeouts, a webhook that silently fails. Each one took me days to figure out and I have zero engineering background.

Curious what others are doing. Are you just patching it yourself, hiring freelancers each time, or has anyone found something more ongoing? I've been wondering if a monthly retainer for this kind of support would actually be worth it or if that's just me.

I'll be honest I've never liked the feeling that someone "owns" me.

So being employed was very distant to me. [As if I had no power over my income.]