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Although not applicable to me (one day!)...

If a pet project suddenly becomes popular and expands beyond it's indended users (bandwidth, resources) how would you handle it?

You need to move to a dedicated server, rewrite a portion, and somehow find the time and money (its a side project - you have a day job).

Also if it's a novel concept but not groundbreaking, how do you keep your user base when it's easy for someone else to capitilise your idea?

What are the options? Has this happened to anyone here?

I'm interested in what day jobs hackers on here have? I'd like to see what the mix of people working IT related jobs with side projects vs non IT related jobs with side projects. IT being the usual admin, developer and designer type positions. And its always interesting in general to see what other people do for a living.