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Ask HN: How many of you wish to quit a job to build a startup?
Curious how many of you are tired of your job and can't wait to quit to build a start-up? Why? What's your current position?
- hackerboos 12y agoI'm trying to get things started on the side whilst working full time because rent. I kind of regret not making more of an effort to do this whilst I was in university; I had so much spare time!
- atrust 12y agoWhat kind of things? Mind to share?
- hackerboos 12y agoNothing of interest yet. I've been too busy getting my paperwork together to move to Canada. That's done now, so soon hopefully.
- hashtag 12y agoJust working on projects on the side. Nothing I'd call a startup yet and certainly nothing I'd be dropping everything to dive into at this moment.
- deegles 12y agoCan't. At least not in this country. I'm on a visa.
- codeonfire 12y agoAs soon as I hit my "quit and build a start-up" targets, I'll be doing just that. Can't really stand being an employee much longer. I'd rather deal with users and clients than coworkers and middlemen managers.
- foxpc 12y agoI'd say it's a dream of every developer. I'm currently working full-time developer for a single product. But trying to find at least a few evenings a week to work on my side project that miiight just take off. I'm a bit sceptical about the success but you never know! At least I'm having fun doing it, right?
- haidrali 12y agoI also have dream exactly like yours working as full stack developer and along side product and carrying it to my startup
- atrust 12y agosame here, send me an email if you are interested to chat atrust15 at gmail.com
- atrust 12y agoshoot me an email if you want to chat a little bit more atrust15 at gmail.com
- aswerty 12y agoI quit about 2 months ago. Currently researching a new tech stack and in the process of designing a web application.
- atrust 12y agoatrust15 @ gmail.com
- jpetersonmn 12y agoI used to have that dream, not so much any more. I work in IT but have been programming in vb.net and python for the last couple of years. I've created several in house utilities for troubleshooting of our main software and automation of internal processes. (I work for an electronic testing company) I've started many side projects, however the excitement usually wears off in a couple weeks and they don't get finished. I'm dedicated to finishing my current project (been working on it several months now) but after that I think I'm going to focus on smaller side projects that I can finish in a week or two, or perhaps trying to help with some open source projects. I tend to shy away from sharing my code with others. I'm self taught and feel like it's probably real substandard compared to the "professionals".
- atrust 12y agoWhere are you from?
- Proleps 12y agoI've thought about starting my own company, but I don't want to start a startup. I want to start a company without investors that actually makes money from the beginning. Although it is something I think about from time to time, I am sticking to the job I have for a while. I learn a lot on the job and it's a nice place to work.
- nsetu 12y agoWith an aim to have a start-up of my own, I decided to first give up my permanent job and work as a contractor. This I thought was safe than going out all by myself. I now have a company of my own but I work at client sites. Initially this all seem to be right thing and I also thought of taking up some freelance work which could generate profits for the company. But, due to my full time job I can hardly focus on my freelance projects let alone targeting those deadlines.. And also I think to bag onto some good projects its essential to meet right people and win projects- which all comes down to networking skills.