Why are you wasting your time?

[kelvyn]

Thank goodness for people like Jaap!
You are never wasting your time when you are doing what you love, just look at some great creative people like Joni Mitchell, Frank Auerbach or J D Salinger. All created not for any other purpose than to
be constantly in a moment of becoming where time ceases to exit.

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

When you hear your sound being used by an Oscar-awarded/nominated composer, in a huge Hollywood production, it all becomes worthwhile. You get a huge morale lift that lasts a week.

ok this is moral satisfaction of a creator,but not a business model.
You sell the set for 50 bucks,the nominated composer sell his product for 50 000,the movie company sell the movie for 50 mln,how are these business models comparable,you are just smallest,but in the same time maybe most important fish in the food chain,somehow just don't like the idea to be the plankton in this industry,so prefer to make it the way i like it and offer stuff without any business expectations attach to it.
Don't get me wrong i am not saying that don't wanna make music a successful business,to earn enough to do it as profession ,just sound design on free market doesn't pay rent and buy food every month,just no enough users all the time for such a product - that's the truth let's not overrate the things.
Nothing will make me more happy to do it for living,but as business i see it more as skills you can use somewhere else,or maybe i am just terrible seller don't know hahahha...
Cheerz

[TripleSpiralAudio]

@Kelvyn - Cheers man! And yeah, one should always when possible do what you love, no matter what that is.

@Velltone Music - it is certainly possible to live and work fulltime on sound design and I think there are enough doing that

[VELLTONE MUSIC]

Seriously doubt that there is many designers that can rely each month to earn over 1000 euro from free internet sales,as this is minimum to call it professional,but considering that your nice words probably sound really convincing and promising to young designers i absolutely admire such optimism and accept this as help to spend their time chasing some success pleasant way believing in miracles :)Cheerz

[DJ Warmonger]

By the way, my soundware piece of chaotic wavetable pack for Serum got thousand(s?) visits for my blog, much more than any actual music I ever made or mixed.

Even though I didn't use that pack myself till very recently, and it's actual value is questionable

[fluffy_little_something]

My business runs good to be honest. I have a good amount of sales, some really neat and famous customers, seeing them purchase and use your sounds is really motivating. Recently Ramin Djawadi became a customer and seeing his order came in, is so freaking great as he is one of my composing and sound heroes

Whoever that is, doesn't he mind your mentioning this on a public forum? I suppose he might expect the usual confidentiality that any customer expects