IMHO: Short Term: - You need time => consult to get money => to get time - Be careful with this path => make sure it stays only short term - if possible con

IMHO: Short Term: - You need time => consult to get money => to get time - Be careful with this path => make sure it stays only short term - if possible consult in the same space of your product.(best case: your clients pays your future platform development) Mid Term: - You think like a developer atm - unless you plan to sell to developers this wont solve your core problem (understanding the market) - tech can be completely useless with one usecase or extremely valuable with another. Figure out who could be potential customers (it's product thinking not dev thinking, best case: you learned this in your consulting period) - when you figured out who "could" be your customer make sure it's actually a customer you can/want to deliver for. If you sell to enterprise it will be a sales operation and you need to learn this. In any case: Head up and be confident. Things are not as bad as they seem and there will be a good end (maybe not directly afterwards but in the years to come)