The entire machinery of online discourse around building and creating has been so thoroughly captured by entrepreneurial "logic" that we've lost the language to describe what it feels like to simply make a thing that helps someone, give it away, and move on with your life...

https://www.joanwestenberg.com/the-noble-path/

The Noble Path

It is a truth universally acknowledged that an indie hacker in possession of a widget must be in want of a business model... Every tool is a startup now. Every script is a SaaS product. Every neat little hack you cobbled together on a Sunday afternoon to solve your own

Westenberg.
@Daojoan Creators of #OpenStreetMap read this and recognise yourselves! Had we been working for a company then it would never have been built... and we would never have had the joy (and in-depth pedantry) it gives us