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that's a great question so I've been
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doing RPGbot for 12 years now and it has
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never been a full-time thing this has
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always been a side project my day job
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I'm a software developer and I enjoy
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that a lot like I look forward to my day
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job um there have been times when I've
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considered doing RPGbot full-time but
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I've never been able to quite make that
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step because content creation can be a
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really really unstable business um since
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the website is the primary part of
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RPGbot we're super dependent on the
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fluctuations in search engines and how
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they work as an example as search
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engines move toward AI based search
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right now um a lot of websites that run
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on traffic from search engines including
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ours are getting hit really really hard
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because search engines have decided that
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instead of directing people to
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authoritative sources they're just going
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to scrape their data and give you some
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garbled mess instead of actually taking
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you to a website i've never been willing
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to take the risk to go full-time on
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RPGbot like it's it's not impossible but
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right now it's not a possibility but you
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know who knows what the future holds
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things could turn around uh search
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engines could realize that people hate
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AI search and start giving them actually
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we can only dream but uh yeah um RPGbot
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is a side project for me i do have a day
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job um so yeah consider how much content
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I produce for RPGbot and uh imagine what
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I could do if I was putting 40 hours a
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week into this um there have been times
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that I have taken days or sometimes an
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entire week off from my day job to just
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work on RPGbot things and on those days
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I've been able to put out like three
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fulllength articles in a single day
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every day and uh I enjoy that and if I
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could do that full-time I probably
