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Experienced developers who started their own company, how did it go?

I have about 10-15 years of experience. I created some open source projects when I was starting out and maintained throughout the years. The net income from this long-term endeavour is $5 from another developer for a coffee, who messaged me that I saved him many hours of work - that was like 5 years ago. I now see that Meta, Apache and others use some of these open source projects.. and I haven't seen a single dime. This makes me think that if I actually instead aimed to create projects that mak