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Ask HN: Is Your Startup a Side Project or Full Time?

14 pointsjames-fend22 comments

Just wanted to see who all is working full-time on a startup and who all is doing it on the side after work.

Went full-time when 2010 began and stayed like that for one year. As it didn't work, got myself a new job and it became again a side project while I'm saving some money to go full-time again with a new strategy. I'm so glad I've been able to do this every year or so easily...

On the side. Can't afford to go head first right now. I am saving up to take a sabbatical in the future. Unfortunately this means I have to hide my work from my employer knowing they can technically lay claim on it despite the fact that all development is done at home.

Side project because I have a family I need to feed. If I were on my own, I'd probably chance it as full time for as long as I could. I will say I plan make the plunge to full time as soon as I have enough saved from the day job to survive several months to a year.

Don't all the people here with side projects have IP issues with their employers? How many of you have IP related contracts signed with their employers? My understanding is that most technical companies make you sign such contracts.

I'm part time right now, but will be starting full time in January. Wish me luck!

If anyone has the karma for it, (I don't) maybe we could get a poll started? This would work well as a poll.

<-- total newb at HN. Ah, I spent a few mins trying to find it, but couldn't, lol. I see why now..

My side project is full-time (40+ hours/week on lunarmods.com) for the last 6-months, but I still do part-time freelance work to pay about half the bills.

Side project while I finish up my MBA but hope to build enough momentum by the time I am done to jump full time into it.

I dropped all side-projects when I went all in on my current startup (bizen.com). I now work on it full-time.

By the way, there's a small typo on your front page "Bizen is a web-based business-intellegence".

Are you saying business-intelligence should or should not be hyphenated?

We just launched a new website and I don't know if it happened to be hyphenated before.

My wife is a writer and I could see her wanting to hyphenate as a compound modifier, but sine it is such a common phrase, I don't think it should be hyphenated.

Oh, not at all. You've written "intellegence".

Full time, just graduated college in May and have been running my business since I was a sophomore in 2009.

Same here .. A year hve oasse now and im in my way :D

I've got a few little side projects on at the moment, but I'm aiming to make BugMuncher my full time job.

working on a few side projects but hoping Sprint.Im will be my full time job in a few months

im a side-project guy myself, though i cant wait to be able to work full-time on either my startup/concept or another that im equally passionate about

Side project, 2-5 hrs per day on top of the day job

side-projects for now..hope to go full time when my spouse gets done with grad school.

side-projects. wish i had the guts/savings to go full time.

Was my side project durin college, full time once i gratuated like engineer. .. Im in Mex.

Very much fulltime, but it began as a side project many moons ago.

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