[mhowland]

Don't listen to the Don't(s). Only you know your circumstances, if you're in a position to follow your inspiration (no kids, mortgage, etc), awesome do it. These circumstances (typically) evaporate with age, take advantage of them.

Worst case, you learn a ton (probably more about yourself than anything else) and you still have a trade (software dev) that will land you you in the top 1% worldwide in terms of standard of living to fallback on. Best case you build a rad business, plenty of room in between.

That said, become enamored with the problem not the tools (django/python, JS etc). Try to get "ramen" profitable or feedback with the least possible effort. The hard part of sideprojects is rarely the dev, it's most always the marketing.

On the marketing side, read, read, read...then experiment, experiment, experiment. Given the lack of capital you're gonna need to be creative, it can be fun, it can be frustrating...this will be the hardest part of your journey.

Good luck, have fun, learn a ton.

[welpwelp]

Thank you for your comment!

I like your mindset and this is the one I try to have. The tools I mentioned are the ones I use best. Like you said, the choice of tools does not concern me as much as validating my idea and getting to revenue. I'll keep in mind your advice about marketing.

I hope everything is well for you at Scalus!

[inimino]

Most of the Don'ts are going to come from folks who have been there and done that. Listen to them.

By all means, you'll learn from your mistakes. That doesn't mean they aren't mistakes. You can learn even more by building something that's viable and not being flat broke when your first iteration fails to gain traction.