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Just like you, I quit my day job in my early 30s, and have not looked back since. Have founded a dozen companies in the meantime and am currently having the bes
by eruci 6y ago
Just like you, I quit my day job in my early 30s, and have not looked back since. Have founded a dozen companies in the meantime and am currently having the best financial year of my 15 year solo-founder career.
My advice is, hang in there. If you like what you are doing persist and adapt.
My best product thus far is an API I built to support my original business plan. The original product I tried to build is long dead.
All the best.
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- bitcoinmoney 6y agoWas it worth it financially? Like are you earning loads now?
- eruci 6y agoTotally worth it. I'm currently earning around four times a senior software engineer salary, and I've got plenty of free time. Overall my average earnings over the whole 15 year period have been double what I'd have been getting in a day job.
- tiborsaas 6y agoI did the same and I regret most of it :) All my attempts were total failures. It's also fine to just dance back to a 9-5. Having a paycheck and living an OK life if perfectly fine.
- pknerd 6y agoDozens of companies or sites? Even sites, why did you make so many Ventures? We're they affiliate sites?
- eruci 6y agoI originally started https://foodpages.ca https://foodpages.ca and dinehere.us then built https://geocode.ca https://geocode.ca to provide local search functionality, then expanded worldwide with geocode.xyz and 3geonames.org, also got into collaborative fiction writing with fictionpad.com and price comparison engines with comparify.xyz & askvini.com (which I sold on flippa) and real estate aggregator sites (shitet.net and landhub.ca, landhub.us). Currently geocode.xyz and geocoder.ca are my most profitable businesses.