Boostrap with service company, and build product on a side.
This works since 2000s - check success stories of some known companies and you will find this path in many stories.
I would say, thanks to VC money it is easier to get sevice jobs aside.
This works since 2000s - check success stories of some known companies and you will find this path in many stories.
I would say, thanks to VC money it is easier to get sevice jobs aside.
VC has flooded the market with money, so it's easier to keep a stable income while hacking on the side. At the same time, to succeed as a bootstrapper, chances are you weren't going to compete in areas where VC loves throwing money (as in, it's a tremendous challenge to build your own Linear, Notion etc on the side).