I once quit my job and used my savings to build an app, and then failed badly.
A lot of people ask me about quitting their job to build something, and I always try to stop them.
Because once you quit your job, the financial pressure and stress can crush your motivation to keep building.
In the early days, most apps usually make no revenue, or very little revenue.
Don’t believe those brainless tweets on X like:
“My app made $10k in 2 weeks.”
Lol. That is either an extremely rare lucky case, or they spent a lot of money on paid ads and influencers.
And trust me, if you don’t have experience with ads, you will most likely lose money in the beginning.
Quit your job only when your app is already generating enough profit (profit, not revenue) to cover your normal living expenses. 😃
I don't know anyone who quit their job to live of savings and built something that made money before their savings run out except
@AndreyAzimov
I always think it's the wrong way to do it
I think you should build something on the side and once it makes equal or more money than your main job or freelance gigs and it's stable, quit the job and switch
Being unemployed somehow makes people lazy and feel too relaxed to build something, like your day is fully free of commitments which sounds ideal but freedom isn't when stuff is built I think, you need constraints
I had income from my YouTube channel Panda Mix Show in 2013 when I started, and it took over a year before I made enough money to switch
Obviously I wish him well but I think better do the switch than hard quit