content: Thanks. Great insights! Yes, I think something long-term is the way to go in order to become comprehensive and essentially useful. One problem with social media is that it needs lots of integrations with external services and APIs which is a lot of work for a single dev, but I guess one year should be more than enough including alpha-testing. There is also the question of saturation. The world already has enough reddit clones, voat is a really nice one. Moreover, I also need to incur lots of initial expenses for web-hosting to host a high-traffic site like reddit or voat.  I've probably failed at almost a hundred ideas before even starting :-)  I guess that's the same with every entrepreneur! That's still no reason to stop trying out a 101st idea. The trick is to think of it as a side-project and stop worrying about "not earning enough income". If you start worrying about income, your coding ability will suffer and your creativity will be crippled. But if you just let the code flow (as a musician does while playing a symfony), I think you will end up with a great product, and maybe then the "money model" will work out!