As mentioned in the article, you could be in violation of the contract you signed with your employer with side projects. See an earlier discussion on this aspe

As mentioned in the article, you could be in violation of the contract you signed with your employer with side projects. See an earlier discussion on this aspect: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2208056 In my case, I have gone full-time for my (yet to be defined) project to avoid this issue and be focused 100% on it.