Re:Ask HN: About to quit my job and work full-time on my sid...
by jasonkester on Monday February 25, 2019 @08:19AM
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You’ve already taken the best advice I have to give on the subject: don’t quit your day job until you replace it’s income.
Beyond that, I personally made a point of ensuring that my product stuff runs itself with no human input whatsoever. Even to the point of ensuring that customer support tasks get automated after the second time I see the same request.
The goal is to be able to really down tools and disappear for a month at a time without the business falling apart. Chances are you will have had to do a lot of this in order to run the thing while employed full time, but now that the payoff will be true 100% downtime for you whenever you want it, it’s well worth finishing the job.
Beyond that, I personally made a point of ensuring that my product stuff runs itself with no human input whatsoever. Even to the point of ensuring that customer support tasks get automated after the second time I see the same request.
The goal is to be able to really down tools and disappear for a month at a time without the business falling apart. Chances are you will have had to do a lot of this in order to run the thing while employed full time, but now that the payoff will be true 100% downtime for you whenever you want it, it’s well worth finishing the job.
Good luck!