You definitely should, maybe try to find a job which is chill enough so you can still build your side project when you want. Once you have some time for side h

You definitely should, maybe try to find a job which is chill enough so you can still build your side project when you want. Once you have some time for side hustles, you should iterate on your methodology to run side businesses and maybe have the long term goal of depending less and less on your daily job and more on your side projects. If you want to start a business focus on a problem people are happy to pay for - and then build the technical part. In order to do that, you need to talk to people early and try to convert them into paying customers, even if you don't have a product. Sometimes this means cultivating an audience and launching a tweet (or an email) to your audience, sometimes this means cold mailing people, sometimes this means going somewhere and talking to people. You should also limit the work you're doing until you validated the idea. You have no idea how many business I started which turned out to be unsellable. If I had to build a full fledged technical solution for each of them, I would have wasted so much time. Even when you do your homework, there will still be a lot of attempts where it seems like everything should work out and you should get customers - but you just don't for whatever reason. Some incredibly lucky times you build the product and people come. I noticed this is true especially if you can leverage some huge marketing channel (like a marketplace opening up: iOS apps when the first iPhone came out, the shopify marketplace) which allow any software (no matter whether it's good or not) to become popular and make money.