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Ask HN: Is Your Startup a Side Project or Full Time?

14 points by james-fend 15y ago

Just wanted to see who all is working full-time on a startup and who all is doing it on the side after work.

iambot 15y ago
im a side-project guy myself, though i cant wait to be able to work full-time on either my startup/concept or another that im equally passionate about
MattBearman 15y ago
I've got a few little side projects on at the moment, but I'm aiming to make BugMuncher my full time job.
dgunn 15y ago
I'm part time right now, but will be starting full time in January. Wish me luck! If anyone has the karma for it, (I don't) maybe we could get a poll started? This would work well as a poll.
- james-fend 15y ago
  <-- total newb at HN. Ah, I spent a few mins trying to find it, but couldn't, lol. I see why now..
kodablah 15y ago
On the side. Can't afford to go head first right now. I am saving up to take a sabbatical in the future. Unfortunately this means I have to hide my work from my employer knowing they can technically lay claim on it despite the fact that all development is done at home.
winsbe01 15y ago
side-projects. wish i had the guts/savings to go full time.
massarog 15y ago
Full time, just graduated college in May and have been running my business since I was a sophomore in 2009.
- Kirchart123 15y ago
  Same here .. A year hve oasse now and im in my way :D
diolpah 15y ago
Very much fulltime, but it began as a side project many moons ago.
hacker007 15y ago
side-projects for now..hope to go full time when my spouse gets done with grad school.
alok-g 15y ago
Don't all the people here with side projects have IP issues with their employers? How many of you have IP related contracts signed with their employers? My understanding is that most technical companies make you sign such contracts.
russjhammond 15y ago
Side project while I finish up my MBA but hope to build enough momentum by the time I am done to jump full time into it.
jaxn 15y ago
I dropped all side-projects when I went all in on my current startup (bizen.com). I now work on it full-time.
- vorador 15y ago
  By the way, there's a small typo on your front page "Bizen is a web-based business-intellegence".
  - jaxn 15y ago
    Are you saying business-intelligence should or should not be hyphenated? We just launched a new website and I don't know if it happened to be hyphenated before. My wife is a writer and I could see her wanting to hyphenate as a compound modifier, but sine it is such a common phrase, I don't think it should be hyphenated.
    - vorador 15y ago
      Oh, not at all. You've written "intellegence".
Kirchart123 15y ago
Was my side project durin college, full time once i gratuated like engineer. .. Im in Mex.
mbijon 15y ago
My side project is full-time (40+ hours/week on lunarmods.com) for the last 6-months, but I still do part-time freelance work to pay about half the bills.
riffmaster 15y ago
working on a few side projects but hoping Sprint.Im will be my full time job in a few months
AndyG1128 15y ago
Side project because I have a family I need to feed. If I were on my own, I'd probably chance it as full time for as long as I could. I will say I plan make the plunge to full time as soon as I have enough saved from the day job to survive several months to a year.
iaskwhy 15y ago
Went full-time when 2010 began and stayed like that for one year. As it didn't work, got myself a new job and it became again a side project while I'm saving some money to go full-time again with a new strategy. I'm so glad I've been able to do this every year or so easily...
blazzar 15y ago
Side project, 2-5 hrs per day on top of the day job

14 points by james-fend 15y ago

Just wanted to see who all is working full-time on a startup and who all is doing it on the side after work.

im a side-project guy myself, though i cant wait to be able to work full-time on either my startup/concept or another that im equally passionate about

MattBearman 15y ago

I've got a few little side projects on at the moment, but I'm aiming to make BugMuncher my full time job.

dgunn 15y ago

I'm part time right now, but will be starting full time in January. Wish me luck! If anyone has the karma for it, (I don't) maybe we could get a poll started? This would work well as a poll.

james-fend 15y ago
<-- total newb at HN. Ah, I spent a few mins trying to find it, but couldn't, lol. I see why now..

kodablah 15y ago

On the side. Can't afford to go head first right now. I am saving up to take a sabbatical in the future. Unfortunately this means I have to hide my work from my employer knowing they can technically lay claim on it despite the fact that all development is done at home.

winsbe01 15y ago

side-projects. wish i had the guts/savings to go full time.

massarog 15y ago

Full time, just graduated college in May and have been running my business since I was a sophomore in 2009.

Kirchart123 15y ago
Same here .. A year hve oasse now and im in my way :D

diolpah 15y ago

Very much fulltime, but it began as a side project many moons ago.

hacker007 15y ago

side-projects for now..hope to go full time when my spouse gets done with grad school.

alok-g 15y ago

Don't all the people here with side projects have IP issues with their employers? How many of you have IP related contracts signed with their employers? My understanding is that most technical companies make you sign such contracts.

russjhammond 15y ago

Side project while I finish up my MBA but hope to build enough momentum by the time I am done to jump full time into it.

jaxn 15y ago

I dropped all side-projects when I went all in on my current startup (bizen.com). I now work on it full-time.

vorador 15y ago
By the way, there's a small typo on your front page "Bizen is a web-based business-intellegence".
- jaxn 15y ago
  Are you saying business-intelligence should or should not be hyphenated? We just launched a new website and I don't know if it happened to be hyphenated before. My wife is a writer and I could see her wanting to hyphenate as a compound modifier, but sine it is such a common phrase, I don't think it should be hyphenated.
  - vorador 15y ago
    Oh, not at all. You've written "intellegence".

Kirchart123 15y ago

Was my side project durin college, full time once i gratuated like engineer. .. Im in Mex.

mbijon 15y ago

My side project is full-time (40+ hours/week on lunarmods.com) for the last 6-months, but I still do part-time freelance work to pay about half the bills.

riffmaster 15y ago

working on a few side projects but hoping Sprint.Im will be my full time job in a few months

AndyG1128 15y ago

Side project because I have a family I need to feed. If I were on my own, I'd probably chance it as full time for as long as I could. I will say I plan make the plunge to full time as soon as I have enough saved from the day job to survive several months to a year.

iaskwhy 15y ago

Went full-time when 2010 began and stayed like that for one year. As it didn't work, got myself a new job and it became again a side project while I'm saving some money to go full-time again with a new strategy. I'm so glad I've been able to do this every year or so easily...

blazzar 15y ago

Side project, 2-5 hrs per day on top of the day job