Get real. I'm going to sound harsh, but if you're choosing to spend time angsting about this, you're probably better working for someone else than yourself. You

Get real. I'm going to sound harsh, but if you're choosing to spend time angsting about this, you're probably better working for someone else than yourself. You aren't making good decisions on how to spend your time, which means you will be badly handicapped in any venture that you control. If you want to prove me wrong, get hungry. Put all your money less enough to pay rent, expenses and ramen for six months into a long term savings account that you can't touch for a year. So in six months, you are going to be starving, out on the street, and your smartphone will be repossessed... unless you perform. Whoa... OK, lets analyse all these amazing ideas. Ask female friends which ones have legs, work out which one is most likely to start earning you enough money to keep you off the street in six months. Forget trying to raise venture capital - if you can't show revenue they won't be interested, if you can show revenue you don't need them anyway. Then get to it. By now you only have 5.5 months left to build this darn thing, 5.5 months before you starve. Design, code, network all hours of the day and night. Phone every new customer and ask them what they like and don't like about the product. Every thing you do, you ask "is this helping me build revenue?" before you spend a second doing it. Lying in bed before you go to sleep, you're figuring out how to do some A/B testing to improve signup rates, not worrying about whether you're too old to produce amazing art. Then six months is up. You have enough revenue coming in to pay for the next month's rent, expenses and ramen - congratulations. Or you've learned that even with your best idea and effort, you couldn't make ends meet. You get regular job, and make a difference to the world that way. Good luck to you, and if anything I've said helps at all, let me know how you go.