Just really curious how everyone identifies, from what I see most people somewhat feel they can only work alone / on-the-side for their FoC interest

I put 2, but I'm really somewhere between 2 and 3.

I was doing FoC full-time in academia, and probably wouldn’t have left if this Slack had existed.

@Daniel Hines Same here, employer are fine with me exploring things, but it's probably unrealistic to expect enough work time to turn those explorations into production ready, polished experiences. And I feel without that many users wouldn't take those "experiments" very seriously 😞

The tool I'm making (Hest) is for my coworkers first and foremost. On the plus, that means I get to spend a lot of time on it. On the minus, it means I can only pursue ideas that fit our needs, and that I can implement myself relatively quickly.

@Pine Wu It wouldn’t have been as isolating. The only person nearby who talked about this stuff was my advisor. There’s a lot of interesting viewpoints here. :)

I put 1 but I'm quitting my job next week so i will shift to 7 soon 🙂

@Scott Anderson if industry allows you to pursue your FoC vision full time, why quit?

@Ivan Reese Saw your pinned tweet and hest seems pretty cool! Currently I'm trying to teach someone programming and I feel with hest it'd be much easier to explain loops (I'm showing her python tutor, but animation is always more intuitive)

@yairchu a lot of reasons, mostly boring work\office things that cause people to leave jobs (long commute, team culture, etc.) From an FoC vision standpoint ultimately I tried to sell my vision and ended up with a relatively compromised version. That in combination with not really being excited about the product I was implementing the system for. At some point I decided I'd rather pursue my actual vision (VR fantasy console) than try to build systems for ill-defined Facebook products.