You completed your most successful project just by talking to other people -- your recommendation to go it alone seems to contradict that. Does it come from having had a bad experience?
Yes that's true. The surest path to success doesn't generally align with happiness. People will frequently disappoint you. Yet unfortunately success in our current system is all about people and connections.
But if you focus on building stuff for its own sake and don't worry about financial success, you will be a lot happier because those goals are within your control. You will build the product and you will achieve your personal vision. Nobody else will care but that's going to be OK because you will prove to yourself that you're a capable individual and that's satisfying in itself.
