I quit my business to start an open-source dev tool
rogovoy.me
rogovoy.me
Who is going to pay for this?
I was in your shoes, building products and tools and not going anywhere for months. I am also an engineer by trade. But building a business is not about engineering, it's about customers. You should have customers giving you real money or letters of intents before writing a single line of code.
Otherwise you have a side project, not a business.
As a man, who've building a product for 6 years, I understand you well.
Keep pushing yourself. As @Shindi said, it is important to start from potential customers and their needs first.
What do you have to lose? :-)