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I did it! I quit my day job!
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Re: I did it! I quit my day job!
#12Congratulations and Good Luck!! Just curios to know. Do you concentrate on specific domains like web site development, or RoR or PHP etc., Or are you planning to gain vertical expertise.
Re: I did it! I quit my day job!
#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
A little honest feedback: your site was painfully slow to load (8+ seconds?). If you weren't a HN'er I never would have stuck around and let it load.
It took me nearly a minute on a 10Mbit connection. So yah, I agree with the above poster. Congratulations though!
Thanks for the feedback on the site design, everyone! It's far from finished, that was another reason I didn't want to link to it, but I should have been more clear about that :)
With all the actual project work I've been doing, the site become almost an afterthought... Which is not a good idea, I know. I will definitely rethink the whole Flash concept and make it a lot faster. Thanks!
Re: I did it! I quit my day job!
#14Impressive! I was about to post "Quitting is the easy part" after reading the title, but you've done much more than just quit your day job. Kudos.
Re: I did it! I quit my day job!
#15Congratulations. Any time you get lazy/bored just think back to your box...err cube.
Don't forget to keep HN updated.
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#16It is good that you quit doing something you hated just remember to not burn yourself out working on your new projects that they become a new problem.
I guess what I mean is don't pour yourself completely into these two sources of income remember to take outside interests in unrelated fields/hobbies/entertainment so as to keep your experience diverse in order to avoid quick burn out.
Re: I did it! I quit my day job!
#17Congratulations and Good Luck!! Just curios to know. Do you concentrate on specific domains like web site development, or RoR or PHP etc., Or are you planning to gain vertical expertise.
My own expertise is RoR and Java. But, I've partnered up with some freelancer friends whose skills sets are vastly different. Loginaut is a partnership of independent devs and designers, the idea being that nobody has to pass up any business - if you get offered a project that is completely different from what you do, you still say "sure, I'll do it", and pass it on to others in Loginaut, in exchange for a %.
Re: I did it! I quit my day job!
#18Congrats! Where are you located?
NYC. Planning to be as location-independent as possible, though :)
Re: I did it! I quit my day job!
#19It is good that you quit doing something you hated just remember to not burn yourself out working on your new projects that they become a new problem. I guess what I mean is don't pour yourself completely into these two sources of income remember to take outside interests in unrelated fields/hobbies/entertainment so as to keep your experience diverse in order to avoid quick burn out.
Hear hear! After a few months of working 15-16 hours a day total, I'm going to force myself to work 10 hours a day max, and focus on having a life in the other time :)
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#20i don't think anyone here minds self promotion, so here is your site: http://www.loginaut.com
wow that sound when the site loaded was awful.