Hi,

I’m a programmer with a bunch of years in IT and currently I’m trying to build my own project that can bring me enough revenue so I can leave my full-time job and focus on my projects only and eventually start my own business.

The main struggle right now is that I have too little time to work on my projects (around 3 hours per week) and I estimate it will take me at least 2 more years to start earning anything (not talking about real money so I can leave my full time job). I don’t want to create any sort of scam just to grab some cash, but building a real complex software is a time consuming process, not speaking about that I must handle other stuff than programming (which I enjoy but this means I have even more work to do).

I’m wondering if anybody can give me any advice how to speed up that process or where I can get money to be able to focus on my ideas full time? Or maybe somebody tried to do the same and failed and can share what lessons they learned from their mistakes?

I’m looking for a real solutions, so please cut out generic advices like “just keep working” or “just find an angel investor”. I understand that starting your own business is hard and requires to take a risk, but I’m looking for practical advices and not advices based on luck or having a huge start capital.

Thanks

  • theneverfox@pawb.socialEnglish
    6·
    23 hours ago

    Find a partner. It can be a person, it can be a small business that might be interested in selling your software… You need at least one partner

    You could try to take out a business loan or keep grinding as a side hustle, but if you don’t know how to build a product (and I don’t mean architecture) you need someone who does

    And I say it as someone who has come to that realization the hard way

    • YUART@feddit.orgOP
      1·
      45 minutes ago

      Hi, thanks for your advice. I think that 2 people will do more than one too. Unfortunately, for now I didn’t find a person who is interested to become my partner for my current project.