04-13-2015, 04:06 PM
An increase in income - I can say there is. To a large extent though, it is money that came to me unexpectedly, from projects that I haven't paid attention to for some time. Vast majority came from 2 SEO'ed websites, making money from affiliate commissions. I may have to build them up again. 
The projects I've been working on in the past 6 months... I think it's important to note that I have never developed products on my own, let alone manage other people. This was completely new to me and most of my time and efforts were directed toward developing enough programming skills, as well as learning how to build a team. I'm more comfortable in the former, rather than the latter for now. With more finances coming it, I think it's going to be a matter of time to mend that.
I feel fairly comfortable programming now. Over the past 6 months, I learned a fair amount of JavaScript and jQuery, learned to create scripts with Python, as well as how to utilize MySQL and MS SQL Server databases. While I still feel as a beginner, the programmers I'm working with are saying, that some of the things they see me doing can easily be considered intermediate stuff, if not advanced. Things like multithreading for example. And I was just doing them for fun, and they work pretty well.
It might not be obvious how all this is part of the answer to your question, but to me it is. One of the project, where there was only one programmer working on it in his free time - it took him close to 6 months to get a working version of it. I'm fairly positive I can do it in 2-3 weeks myself. That doesn't necessarily mean I'd want to do it... but if I knew it back then - well, I would have been much more assertive in my communication with him. I definitely don't intend to spend my days programming, unless it's stuff I *really* don't want to outsource.
There's also the fact that the code itself is an asset. It can be adapted to suit other purposes as needed. Any future projects will take less and less time (or outsourced help AND time). For example, for one project, it turned out that the piece of software we're developing could very easily be used to start a completely different (and as it seems, very profitable) business with only minor modifications.
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The common theme I intend to convey with so much text is this - I expect success to come exponentially. I don't think it would be fair to evaluate BASE just based on one run. Besides, I am only concerned with achieving my goals, trying to figure out BASE's part in this doesn't seem useful to me. The nature of Shannon's products seems to be such, that I don't think I'll ever know exactly how much they've made a difference. I can easily say though, that I can see myself using IML subliminals for a very long time.
The projects I've been working on in the past 6 months... I think it's important to note that I have never developed products on my own, let alone manage other people. This was completely new to me and most of my time and efforts were directed toward developing enough programming skills, as well as learning how to build a team. I'm more comfortable in the former, rather than the latter for now. With more finances coming it, I think it's going to be a matter of time to mend that.
I feel fairly comfortable programming now. Over the past 6 months, I learned a fair amount of JavaScript and jQuery, learned to create scripts with Python, as well as how to utilize MySQL and MS SQL Server databases. While I still feel as a beginner, the programmers I'm working with are saying, that some of the things they see me doing can easily be considered intermediate stuff, if not advanced. Things like multithreading for example. And I was just doing them for fun, and they work pretty well.
It might not be obvious how all this is part of the answer to your question, but to me it is.
One of the project, where there was only one programmer working on it in his free time - it took him close to 6 months to get a working version of it. I'm fairly positive I can do it in 2-3 weeks myself. That doesn't necessarily mean I'd want to do it... but if I knew it back then - well, I would have been much more assertive in my communication with him. I definitely don't intend to spend my days programming, unless it's stuff I *really* don't want to outsource. There's also the fact that the code itself is an asset. It can be adapted to suit other purposes as needed. Any future projects will take less and less time (or outsourced help AND time). For example, for one project, it turned out that the piece of software we're developing could very easily be used to start a completely different (and as it seems, very profitable) business with only minor modifications.
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The common theme I intend to convey with so much text is this - I expect success to come exponentially. I don't think it would be fair to evaluate BASE just based on one run. Besides, I am only concerned with achieving my goals, trying to figure out BASE's part in this doesn't seem useful to me. The nature of Shannon's products seems to be such, that I don't think I'll ever know exactly how much they've made a difference. I can easily say though, that I can see myself using IML subliminals for a very long time.
