At a minimum, however, you’ll get paid to learn what it takes to get a tech startup off the ground.

i did the start up thing as an early hire for a bay area based company that let me work remotely in NYC and would fly me out to Oakland every 6-8 weeks to work in person / eat burritos…

they were in an incubator and got some funding so I was their first hire…got them through seed round funding but when runway was starting to be counted we parted ways…having the experience of building something and seeing it get funding though changed my perspective on my abilities…i’m an introvert but was able to deliver shit that was well out of my comfort zone and since then it’s helped me land better / higher position jobs so it wasn’t all bad…kinda funny / small world shit because the VP of Eng at my company now was on the board of advisors for the incubator, and the prototype I built out that got funded was one of the more successful stories out of the early classes from that incubator

having the knowledge and going thru the process at least once of raising funds to turn an idea from nothing into a company was worth it though

i’ve been working on a site that loops audio and lets you shitpost a thumbnail with your beat…it’s pretty niche, but i’ve been messing with turntablism for about 30 years and like to cut over looped beats…when i bought myself an MPC i also had a little portable turntable that i could bring outside during covid lockdown, but bringing the MPC wasn’t always feasible…i set up a little system that’s fairly efficient to turn snippets into loop and rock off my phone…

i’ve been using various iterations of the system for a few years and now kinda want to productize it a little more…with the framework i set up, i can write an audio plugin that will enable direct exporting/uploading from most desktop DAW software which is my seasonal winter project

i’ve been working on implementing stripe and some pay-to-use features but i hope to have a more polished version launched to the public by the end of the year…at this point AI isn’t a part of it, but in the future maybe i can train some models to help find looping points in audio snippets and offer suggestions, because i built a bare bones ass trimming tool that will definitely be iterated on after launch

it’s been slow but i also have a full time and family + dj + paint so i got all the ADHD shit poppin

if you’re only looking at the money, it’ll never be the right time

you’re young enough where you can work a day job, and still build your MVP after work and bounce right back up the next morning…it takes longer to recover from the all-nighters in your 40s

once you have the MVP built out, if you can get traction, fuck it, take the leap, or sometimes life might make a decision for you