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Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
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Re: Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
#22Firstly, best of luck with your startup! That's an exciting move. I'd also recommend moving somewhere like New York, SF, Boston, Austin where there is an active community of technologists with whom you can bounce ideas. I wanted to point out though that your startup's name brings forth strongly negative connotations. Your startup is photo sharing site called Hard Candy. There's a movie called Hard Candy about a 32 ye…
Thanks. Yeah, I'll change the name. It's not intended to be the final name. Just until I can think of something better. I've never seen that movie.
Re: Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
#23Why San Francisco? Move to San Diego and pay a lot less ... I'm out here building a startup and there are many others doing the same.
San Diego is also on the list. I should've put "The Valley" in general. Thanks for the comment.
Not sure where you're geographically located but San Diego isn't anywhere near anything that could be considered "The Valley".
Re: Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
#24Firstly, best of luck with your startup! That's an exciting move. I'd also recommend moving somewhere like New York, SF, Boston, Austin where there is an active community of technologists with whom you can bounce ideas. I wanted to point out though that your startup's name brings forth strongly negative connotations. Your startup is photo sharing site called Hard Candy. There's a movie called Hard Candy about a 32 ye…
To be fair, "Hard Candy" is also the name of a cosmetics line and a Madonna album. I like the name and have never heard of the Ellen Page movie.
Re: Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
#25Earlier quoted context omitted.
San Diego is also on the list. I should've put "The Valley" in general. Thanks for the comment.
Not sure where you're geographically located but San Diego isn't anywhere near anything that could be considered "The Valley".
I was thinking of San Jose :)
Re: Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
#26Don't move to SF before you're making the money to afford it. Those savings will stretch a lot further living with Mom and Dad.
Agree. And you might end up making enough money not to bother moving.
Re: Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
#27Good luck, and come to the launch conference next week as my guest, ping me @Jason
Awesome Jason!! I really love your interest in helping people..
Re: Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
#28Don't move to SF before you're making the money to afford it. Those savings will stretch a lot further living with Mom and Dad.
Would you mind elaborating on that? Staying at a Hackerhouse is relatively inexpensive(~550/mo). Food? ~700. Cali Taxes are, of course very high, but I don't see how SF is less expensive than Boston/NYC. Then again you could get by with $2k/month in SF but it's a question of how the quality of your life would be.
Re: Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
#29Why San Francisco? Move to San Diego and pay a lot less ... I'm out here building a startup and there are many others doing the same.
San Diego is also on the list. I should've put "The Valley" in general. Thanks for the comment.
I'm a contractor who just quit my fulltime client (the 9-5 "job") to bootstrap my startup as well; I live in North County San Diego. I only have ~3 months in the bank, but with two part-time clients, I pay all my monthly bills, with the rest of my time going into my startup and I live a block from the beach in the middle of a coastal downtown area.
Life is good :) Take the plunge. PM me if you wind up moving down here, would love to get coffee.
Re: Tell HN: I quit my job to bootstrap my startup by myself.
#30Congratulations on starting out!
I'm 24 as well and working on my own ramen-profitable startup.
This is a good time in your life to risk it all. My suggestion is to try and go for revenue as soon as possible. Even if you just get to making $1-2k a month, you can live on that at this time in your life.