Check any agreements you have with your company they may contain wording that anything you create is their IP or other restrictions. If that checks out I would

Check any agreements you have with your company they may contain wording that anything you create is their IP or other restrictions. If that checks out I would look in to building income with products and eventually a SaaS app. Listen to the archives here: https://StartupsForTheRestOfus.com/archives/ https://StartupsForTheRestOfus.com/archives/ Rob and Mike cover starting a business on the side and lots of topics that will be of interest to you. This is inspiring too: @DHH Startup School Talk 2008 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CDXJ6bMkMY Keep your focus on your family and on your day job. There are hours here and there when your family is asleep or busy that you can put that time in to building products. If you enjoy this type of work you can build your own products instead of watching TV two hours a night. Follow Rob's stair step approach. Like DHH says it's still hard, but it's definitely doable. Good luck.