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Also count your blessings, there are a lot of people your age who would love to have your problem.
1) Put the project on hold until you're done with school
2) Put school on hold until you're done with the project or can afford to hire people to deal with it while you're in school.
Unfortunately, there's only so much time in a day and you need to sleep some. Priorities suck.
2. Try to get a developer who can support you, should not be to hard
3. Try to scale your business
Where are you based?
4-5k a month is more than enough to make a hire. Think of it this way: What is your time worth to you? Would you rather work your ass off and make 5k, or have a sane workload, make 2k for a while, which then rises as you have adequate internal infrastructure to support growing sales and users? It sounds like you have a good thing going, and I'd strongly recommend at looking to get another pair of hands involved - or…
As he apologised for his English (which as an aside is perfectly acceptable) I'd assume that figure isn't in dollars or pound sterling. Possibly euros but that again would seem to be enough to get someone else involved in the project.
I agree with some of the other commenters that a hire sounds like the way to go. Unless something is lost in translation, such as the currency, 4-5K is plenty. If not a developer, then someone in sales, which can potentially be a commission based system. Also, think about switching to ramen for a few months. Thats the part of startup life that you tend to not see in the movies and magazines. Pre-seed tends to involve…
Though it's temporary, and somewhat romanticized (I still eat ramen), that's a terrible suggestion health-wise :-) I think dry beans + crock pot + rice is a better, low cost diet.
I can't tell you much about managing the coding part, but I've got experience getting solid support systems up and running for developer-type products. Feel free to drop me an email if you'd like to bounce ideas back and forth on what you're doing and what might help make the load more manageable. I may be able to help with some of it too for cheap/free time permitting. Good luck either way!