This is an interesting perspective. People usually say "You shouldn't quit your job until you've validated your idea and you have enough MRR, savings, or freela

This is an interesting perspective. People usually say "You shouldn't quit your job until you've validated your idea and you have enough MRR, savings, or freelance work to support yourself." You don't often hear people say "You shouldn't quit your job if you enjoy it." I think lots of people are working on side projects because they really don't like their jobs, and would prefer to have freedom and passive income. I've been working on FormAPI [1] for about 18 months. I was able to work on it full time for about 3 months while I built the MVP. I've still needed to do some contract work over the last year, but now I'm able to work on it full-time. Part-time contract work has been really great, especially while living in Thailand. I probably couldn't have done it if I had a full-time job. If you're building a product that has paying customers, you need to respond to support requests, give product demos, do sales. Part-time contract work is a much better fit so that you can always be on call. I don't know if I would call myself a "maker" for FormAPI. I started the company because I wanted to make money, and it wasn't because I wanted to build a fun project or learn something new (although both ended up being true.) I do love making things though, like little games and websites, electronics projects, etc. Actually now that my side-project became my full-time job, I have to find more time to build some fun projects. Sometimes I just do everything under FormAPI and write a blog post about it. For example, I had an idea for a little CSS game that I wanted to build. I was building a Bitcoin puzzle as a marketing exercise, so it was a good excuse to build that CSS game as well [2]. [1] https://formapi.io https://formapi.io [2] https://pixelperfect.formapi.io https://pixelperfect.formapi.io