Nothing is stopping me. Just working on it every minute in my spare time while still working full time.
Ask HN: What stops you from starting today?
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Re: Ask HN: What stops you from starting today?
#32Well since I'm the only person( so I'm doing all the coding myself). I'm learning Objective-C, going trough tutorials etc.
Not really an excuse, I think I have passed the excuse stage in my startup life.
So basically, I'm one step away from building the app.
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#33Turns out? Nothing. I halfway participated in a hackathon recently, and since then, I've found myself... motivated.
Usually when the urge strikes, my day job starts taking up too much time, or life happens, or I realize my idea is stupid. This time, however, I'm just going to go for it. I don't care that the product I'm building is in a VERY crowded space. I don't care that there's no 'killer feature' to draw the crowds in. I don't care that it really isn't that marketable. It's a product, and I'm building it -- and while I don't expect it to set the world on fire, I've stutter-started enough times in my life that I feel like just finishing something and releasing it will be a huge step in the right direction, so that's what I'm doing.
You won't read about this product on TechCrunch, and you won't see it lauded as the next great thing, but you will be able to register for it and use it, and ideally, within a month and a half to two months. And you can bad-mouth it all you like, I'll have done... something.
Re: Ask HN: What stops you from starting today?
#34Turns out? Nothing. I halfway participated in a hackathon recently, and since then, I've found myself... motivated. Usually when the urge strikes, my day job starts taking up too much time, or life happens, or I realize my idea is stupid. This time, however, I'm just going to go for it. I don't care that the product I'm building is in a VERY crowded space. I don't care that there's no 'killer feature' to draw the cro…
Love it! Can't say enough how i wish you to succeed with that!
Remember there is always place for another player in ANY market. For example read article that explains why 1% of search worth 1B. Even if your market share is going to be 0.1% in the beginning and you are passionate about what you do - i believe in you!
Best of luck with that!
Re: Ask HN: What stops you from starting today?
#35If by "start" you mean "quit your job and start full-time" then I won't because I have an unemployed spouse and 2 young children (and my current salary doesn't facilitate any savings). Of course, nothing stops me from working it once the kids go to bed but it's frustrating, tiring and is taking a very very long time... and then lack of motivation and/or distractions are big problem.
It might be that startup is not for you. I'd suggest to stop reading HN(as it can be very dangerous for you mental happines-constant glory tales to founders) and find a way to increase your salary on f-t position. I dont know what are you doing but i think you can set goal of making 2-3x of you current salary. There are better resources to read to archive that goal DISC: Above is just my imho, listen with caution, i…
Well, I've been reading HN since before it was called Hacker News and I don't think I'll stop any time soon. It's not HN news which it making me want to start my own business but a desire to work on meaningful projects which fulfil my need to turn my imagination into reality... and ultimately provide a stable financial circumstances for my family.
Re: Ask HN: What stops you from starting today?
#36Earlier quoted context omitted.
You count part-time as having started one's dream company?
You don't? If that's the only way to get off the ground, then yeah, that might just be the start of your dream company. Better part-time than never.
I've started part-time and wanted to know if this Ask HN was directed toward people like me.
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#37TODAY I'm meeting a friend I haven't seen for a quite a while at the pub after work, and it would rude to cancel on such short notice. After that I probably should be getting to bed since I have to work tomorrow.
Is that a funny way of saying that you dont want to start a startup or that counts a real excuse for you?
Re: Ask HN: What stops you from starting today?
#38Nationality, lack of respectable degree, being from one-parent family, a lot of stupid mistakes in the past, age. ^_^
Re: Ask HN: What stops you from starting today?
#39I suffer depression. Mostly it's not that bad but it does mean that I never sustain the passion/effort required for a startup (or even modest personal projects).
hmmmm, I think everything else is either fall out from the depression or an excuse to avoid facing fear. Fear of personal failure, fear that I'm not elite, fear that I don't "have what it takes", etc.
I'm also "old", 40yr, and I hate to say it but I feel less energized, less excited about the world than I remember feeling when I was younger. Change the world? Make "it big"/millions? Be famous? Meh, it's time for my nap.
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#40http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gdVHjDA-Nhk#t=4m15 Good energy, but you'll want to work on control, mister.
his comments, too. manic much?