I am living (frugally) off http://pagekite.net/ http://pagekite.net/ at the moment. TBH I am not sure it counts as we managed to secure a government grant for

I am living (frugally) off http://pagekite.net/ http://pagekite.net/ at the moment. TBH I am not sure it counts as we managed to secure a government grant for building our initial product. We've got a year left of "runway" before we need to either become cash-flow positive or bite the bullet and seek outside investment. As I said, I realize this may not really count as bootstrapping, but I mention it as I think it may be an interesting (and oft overlooked) way to fund the early stages of a tech start-up, at least in places where local governments have programs in place to encourage economic development. (For those who don't know what PageKite is, its main use is as a tool for web developers to demo and test sites on localhost against the public Internet - but we have ambitions to grow and become an alternative to traditional hosting and help make desktop apps and embedded devices integrate better with the web.)