After nine years of steady growth as a solopreneur, the author's income from their product, SaaS Pegasus, has dropped significantly for the first time. This downturn has prompted reflections on personal and business identity, leading to considerations of returning to the workforce while grappling with the implications of AI's impact on their product's future.

• After nine straight years of growth, SaaS Pegasus revenue has dropped noticeably for the first time, breaking a long-held "line goes up" identity as a solopreneur.
• The dip coincides with AI's rise and specifically threatens the product's niche (a Django SaaS boilerplate), raising doubts about whether the business model still has a future.
• The author is seriously weighing a return to traditional employment, treating this as a personal identity crisis as much as a business problem.