# Other people’s projects

- Link: https://www.andreidraganescu.info/2024/10/12/other-peoples-projects/
- Published: 2024-10-12T11:19:18+03:00
- Author: Andrei Draganescu

This week I’ve seen three friends. One talked to me about their drop-shipping startup
and his woes with Romanian e-commerce. Another one has a supplement production facility
and talked to me about his plans to grow online sales, and his woes with offline
deals depending so much on networking and so little on product quality. The third
hand held me two hours through a demo of his quest to invent the ultimate gamification
engine, and we both complained about the woes of doing a startup in this economy.

I could barely share my WordPress drama. They’re cool people, they ask and try their
best to empathise with what my day job exposes me to. But I have to say, it’s now
as raw as their struggles. It’s just a story of mine about yet another person’s 
project.

So I end up my week asking, what is my project? Why am I so available to listen 
to, get involved into, passionately argue for, other people’s projects?