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I’m in the same boat, except now actively planning to take off to work on a side project. Rather than spend another year building a prototype for a potential $1
by grepfru_it 2y ago
I’m in the same boat, except now actively planning to take off to work on a side project. Rather than spend another year building a prototype for a potential $100M idea (last two landed me really nice jobs) I have my eyes set on ideas that will generate $3-6M/year that I can realize on my own with minimal/no outside funding.
I may apply to this YC round for giggles, but totally get the same feeling as you that I’m probably not good enough in their eyes. As Paul Graham said, if you are out chasing VC funding, you are not building your product. So just going to focus on making my life comfortable and launching another successful product or service.
Good luck!
- 999900000999 2y agoWhat market are you targeting 3 to 6 mil a year is amazing for a solo startup. I'm basically a hobbyist game dev outside of work and games are just so risky as a business.
- all2 2y agoI figured solo game devs were more in it for passion rather than anything else. The Choo Choo Charles guy has an interesting YT video on his dev/launch procedure. He basically spent 4 months full time advertising his game after he finished developing it.
- grepfru_it 2y ago- AI (sell them shovels) - Hospice Games should be developed for fun. I would totally fund game development with profits from another venture.