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Living alone sucks. The transition period after a long relationship ends also sucks. No amount of advice from anyone can fill that void for you. Having said that, you have to at least give yourself a chance to go out there and stay in the real-world as much as possible. Some ways to do that would be to just walk around your city/locality/town aimlessly every day before or after your remote work time since there is no reason for you to stay at home beyond that time - have a step count goal - don't go back home until you hit that goal, treat yourselves to local food, make small talk with random strangers, get back on dating apps - meet people for fun. Staying outdoors, moving at all times or as much as possible can do wonders. Also, since you work remote, consider moving to a different place to work. Good luck.

Patent attorney here. I think fulfillment comes from people whom you work with first than the work itself. Rarely does one find good work with good people. I've been lucky that way. My work allows me to use my technical skills, my writing skills, and my 'laywering' skills during prosecutions. Every day is a new day discussing ideas, inventions, or just writing about it - what we call 'patent applications'. To add to that, I work with the best team one could possibly ask for where we demand the best from each other always and we're always learning from each other. Our offsite outings are a blast as well each year!

Agreed, in my little experiment, I made it a point to do little everyday towards my goal, if not a lot, with no pressure on how much I achieved in a day. The idea was to build consistency. It's surprising how well this approach worked for me. Just filling in the "What did you do today?" bit kept pushing me forward and kept me motivated.

I think the whole "be-the-hardest-worker-in-the-room" holds good only when you're so into your work that you forget what time it is. Otherwise, it definitely becomes a chore and a health hazard.

people who've come together, as if by karma, to work on an idea whose time has come and the rest of the world conspires to make it happen.

Wow.. This is poetic.. It didn't feel like a game but a story I was part of. I'm still stroking the fire, gathering wood, and the checking the traps. Just beautiful. Thank you! :)

Can I please request someone here to offer this man a job? He's onto his last buffer month. He has a daughter, he's desperate & contrary to what he may believe, he IS a good developer. And yeah, please have a broad smile when you have him over. He probably needs it most right now. I'm sorry, but that was too depressing to read. We've all been through this stage of self-doubt and agony. But as they say "This too shall pass" and sooner or later he'll be kicking ass! :)

I believe its also possible to convey a lot in the short form of writing (novella) like "Who moved my cheese?" by Spencer Johnson. But I suppose it also depends on the genre & message/story you have mapped out.

orangethirty: Thanks! Email sent...

Barret, YES Europe is covered! :)

Thanks for taking the time!

Sahil, thanks for the feedback! :) We are surely going to be patient ducks for as long as it takes! I think Pinterest has done us all a favor by being role models!

cstrat: You've hit it on the head. That's exactly what we have planned. We'll soon be putting out profiles of artists and their new releases up on the website. We've already requested our fellow friends (bands,writers) to start contributing & save our asses! :)

And No doubt, no one will ever pay for something like this, unless they exactly know what they're getting in return! So we haven't or say won't ask for it until we have something to show for!

betaout - That's by far the most kindest feedback we've got till now. Thanks for that. We'll put all these suggestions to work for sure!

Richard, I'm very much from the artist community back here in India. Used to be singer songwriter & frontman of my band. Most of the artists that we have on board right now are predominantly from here. But we've seen good number of signups from artists outside India as well. So reaching out to a larger crowd is what we've considered.

Agree on the value proposition & UI! We need to fix it like ASAP! Thanks for the feedback!

Peroni, Great inputs! Will keep them in mind. Thanks! Btw, Unlimited Patience is all we startup guys have anyway. I'm totally passionate about this & not letting it down anytime soon! :)

Andrew, thanks for the feedback. The biggest take away from all corners for us has been the UI & I assure you we WILL fix.

Thanks for the kind words Matt! We're looking at getting some press, but we thought it'd yield us better results once we have a good number of artists on board & have something to show for. We are also reconsidering the UI & will revamp it to have more call to action right away.

And I agree, we have to work on simplifying our on-boarding process for artists.

Found this interesting article http://qr.ae/8WSb7 from Business Insider that shares an opinion that bands/artists are probably not making much. However, here's another article (http://goo.gl/FjuiN) that predicts that the global revenues of streaming services like Spotify, Pandora, etc is set to grow 5 times faster than the revenues from downloads. So I presume streaming business is here to stay & artists would just have to deal with it. Not to sound all markety, but I've set out to address this problem & have just launched my new startup, Moshbag (http://moshbag.in). The idea really is to provide a platform for artists to launch their new releases & let subscribers download all new releases for a subscription fee on a monthly basis. We are also distributing 90% of the entire subscription fee collected to all artists. To all those who'd be interested to know more about us, here's a link to our blog: http://moshbag.tumblr.com P.S.- I've just posted it hacker news as well http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4474589 Please do upvote & comment!

This reminds me of a Zen Buddhist text that goes like this - “The Master in the art of living makes little distinction between his work and his play, his labor and his leisure, his mind and his body, his education and his recreation, his love and his religion. He hardly knows which is which. He simply pursues his vision of excellence in everything he does, leaving others to determine whether he is at work or at play. To him, he is always doing both.”

@ajuc: I can assure you we will NOT kill anybody or their loved ones to rid them of their bad habits! Spam, Abuse, all issues, agreed. Fixing, Fixing, Iterating, Fixing. We will be better soon. Promise.

@rodw: This is exactly the kind of feedback that we needed. Thanks for that! We will definitely try to work on most of points that you've raised & try to address that. Build Iterate Build Iterate it isss! :)

noahth: Im assuming people love suspense. A message like this "Hello X, Someone close to you wants you to quit smoking. You'll know who it is after 1 week of you quitting you habit!" should only make them curious rather than being displeased. Worse case, they could simply unsubscribe & forget ALL ABOUT IT! fair enough?

@madao: Lol! Thats sounds a lil too drastic! We are less evil & play secret santa mostly! :)

& this was downvoted because I don't necessarily agree or appreciate the topic?

Give everybody a website & fool them into believing their sales will increase. First it was for small businesses now music. Is that all that google tries to do? Play catch up with facebook, itunes, iphones..etc etc.. (facepalm)

Completely agree on this. I think many just "know" they have to patent an idea 'cause they've heard about it. But few are aware if the whole process is truly worthwhile.

This was so much fun! Maybe programming a small task needed to complete a level might give the desired inverse effect. :)

I think Article One Partners (http://www.articleonepartners.com/) is already doing this if I'm not wrong (minus the social game aspect). Do explore their website. Even non-patent professionals have nailed a lot of patent invalidations over the last few years.