> If you’re a student entrepreneur, turning a side project into a startup is one of the most important steps in your journey as a founder. Considering the audi

> If you’re a student entrepreneur, turning a side project into a startup is one of the most important steps in your journey as a founder. Considering the audience that YC is talking to, I get this statement, but I don't think the process of turning a side project into a startup is restricted to the "student entrepreneur". IndieHackers is full of seasoned and experienced professionals (mostly engineers / developers with a few years in the real world) who have turned their side-projects into successful startups with enough growth and income to quit their day jobs and focus on it fulltime. https://www.indiehackers.com/ https://www.indiehackers.com/ One particularly inspiring story I found on there was that of Tyler Tringas - the guy who created StoreMapper. I do remember he did a Show HN here and I loved it. He says he wrote the MVP for StoreMapper on a plane ride to Argentina, contacted a few of his clients for whom he'd done Shopify work for, and was generating income from week 1. Now he says StoreMapper is bringing in 21K / month Story here => https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/storemapper https://www.indiehackers.com/businesses/storemapper > I have no idea how I found the time at the very beginning, since I was already spending 80% of my time on a startup and 40% on freelancing. But I built the first version of Storemapper from nothing to live-and-accepting-payments in one 30-hour flight.