You could get the job to pay the bills and open source the project. Take just a little time each week to publicize it and find people willing to contribute. If

You could get the job to pay the bills and open source the project. Take just a little time each week to publicize it and find people willing to contribute. If it catches on widely you will be able to live off working it full time. If not, you still get to explore the problem and have fun with it as a hobby. I can’t totally reconcile everyone’s advice to “just forget about the bs techie problem you’re solving” with the fact there are all these companies worth hundreds of millions, which if not well known, would seem like “techie tools with no market”. Postman, for instance.