How do you define success as a Maker?

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This is something I often think about, success differs for everyone, some do it for financial gain, some do it for freedom, others do it to help people. How do you define your success as a maker?

Jim Raptis · Accepted Answer

To be able to go on a 14-days holiday without my laptop/mobile whenever I want.

In retrospect, it requires financial freedom and a business that runs on auto-pilot.

Tristan Pollock · Answer

Working on whatever you are passionate about.

Rajan Soni · Answer

@draptis To be able to go on a 3 day holiday without my laptop/mobile would be a dream right now. I believe it requires people you can trust to hand over the reins [given you're not a solo act]

Al · Answer

I'll consider myself a success when I can quit my job and work on my projects full time. Luckily my expenses a really low and I'm a minimalist.

Ali Aghdam · Answer

End of the day the number of users that are loving your product and using it + the money that you make!

Alexa Vovchenko · Answer

For me success of a Maker means seeing how your work helps others become better, and getting for it the amount of money that lets you not to worry about how much money you have.

Nichole Fisher · Answer

Success for me this far has been Seeing smiles on a happy clients face. Even more so when They've become a returning client. That reminds me of why I love doing all I do. In a whole success will be the time when I'm well known in my city or maybe even statewide or further. When financial freedom is something I can inguldge in. Those are visions for the bigger picture but even now working towards those things, I can say I'm successful bc I wake up everyday and am able to do what I love & it happens to make people wear a smile and spread love.

Sahil Patel · Answer

@betteraliaghdam what if maker started as a passion project and don't want to make money

Nazim @Koinju · Answer

This is not about success, this is about the path. Make it happen !

Jeff Zhang · Answer

Just enjoy the process. You're alive only once and you get to do what you like. Cherish the moment.

Svetoslav Stoyanchev · Answer

@draptis @rajansoni You're sooo right. It is really difficult to trust nowadays.

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Trying to find something witty to post on someone else's post on a site where I am promoting a free program I designed.

Katerina · Answer

I tried to separate personal and professional success but it just doesn't work. I'm a single working mother and so success is related to this:
Being able to take the day off, pick up the girls from school and say "screw work, we go to the beach/mountain/mall today". It's about freedom, but also from constraints society puts on you. I don't live up in the clouds (or below a rainbow - as I'm currently in Ireland), and I know that financial freedom is the basis, followed by a team I can trust as @draptis mentions. 
Success for me is also that my kids see their future as more than just having to get a job at a company.

Shivam Ramphal · Answer

As a maker, I believe the defined term of success, in this case, is accomplishing a certain goal or benchmark. However, success can also be tied to emotions; feeling good about your project, confidence is high, everything is looking good🔥🔥🔥💪

Izuorah Dubem · Answer

The usefulness of what you make

How do you define success as a Maker?

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