This just seems so much more attractive to me on a personal level. I invested a stupid amount of my time to build a webapp just on a unproven hunch that a marke

This just seems so much more attractive to me on a personal level. I invested a stupid amount of my time to build a webapp just on a unproven hunch that a market exists for it (i.e. if it did, I would have been a customer). Now that I'm switching to founder mode and exploring paths forward, the thought of taking a sum just a fraction as big as some of these companies is horrifying to me. I don't want to spend my time and energy selling, and then later defending, a fantasy to investors. Nor the crushing anxiety that must come with that. I just want to build something that the economy values for it's utility, and pay my rent in the process. Though I guess after acheiving that, I'd probably start looking up...