The Million-Dollar Side Project Daydream

Every developer has that moment of galaxy-brain inspiration where we convince ourselves we'll build the next million-dollar SaaS product instead of fixing those 47 bugs in the backlog. That intense concentration while daydreaming about passive income from side projects is practically a developer rite of passage. Meanwhile, our actual codebase sits untouched for weeks because "I'm architecting the solution in my head." The irony? We could've earned more by just putting those hours into our actual job.