Here is another option: Quit your fulltime job and get a part-time gig. Reduce your expenses so that you can scrape by on the part time salary. Crank out the co

Here is another option: Quit your fulltime job and get a part-time gig. Reduce your expenses so that you can scrape by on the part time salary. Crank out the code until you have customers/user base, then go for funding. This is what we've opted to do to get Sponty rolling. YCombinator would be nice, but we're beyond the initial prototype and one of the cofounder cannot quit his day job just yet.