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First: congratulations! This must be an exciting time for you. I've got a web app that I've put some time into (won't link it, as this is your celebratory post

First: congratulations! This must be an exciting time for you. I've got a web app that I've put some time into (won't link it, as this is your celebratory post :D). It solves what I consider to be an interesting problem, but I'm not sure whether to push forward with it or leave it as a pet project. How do you decide whether to take your projects from hobby to company? What are the right moves someone needs to make to take their hobby project to the next level?

pud 15y ago
> How do you decide whether to take your projects from > hobby to company? When I was 22 (I'm 35 now), I decided I wanted to be a freelance programmer. A friend of mine was a web designer and we decided to go into business together -- though we both had day jobs. We didn't have much money, I had about $2,000 saved in the bank. We managed to find a paying customer who needed a website for around $4k. We quit our jobs that day and turned into a "company."