How do you define success as a Maker?

To be able to go on a 14-days holiday without my laptop/mobile whenever I want. In retrospect, it requires financial freedom and a business that runs on auto-pilot.

Working on whatever you are passionate about.

I'll consider myself a success when I can quit my job and work on my projects full time. Luckily my expenses a really low and I'm a minimalist.

For me success of a Maker means seeing how your work helps others become better, and getting for it the amount of money that lets you not to worry about how much money you have.

Success for me this far has been Seeing smiles on a happy clients face. Even more so when They've become a returning client. That reminds me of why I love doing all I do. In a whole success will be the time when I'm well known in my city or maybe even statewide or further. When financial freedom is something I can inguldge in. Those are visions for the bigger picture but even now working towards those things, I can say I'm successful bc I wake up everyday and am able to do what I love & it happens to make people wear a smile and spread love.

This is not about success, this is about the path. Make it happen !

Trying to find something witty to post on someone else's post on a site where I am promoting a free program I designed.

The usefulness of what you make

Success is a moving goal post! Your first paying customer is a big success. Then, the cash flow to hire your first employee...

I tried to separate personal and professional success but it just doesn't work. I'm a single working mother and so success is related to this: Being able to take the day off, pick up the girls from school and say "screw work, we go to the beach/mountain/mall today". It's about freedom, but also from constraints society puts on you. I don't live up in the clouds (or below a rainbow - as I'm currently in Ireland), and I know that financial freedom is the basis, followed by a team I can trust as @draptis mentions. Success for me is also that my kids see their future as more than just having to get a job at a company.