[cloudking]

Surprised most of the comments here are risk adverse, you won't know if you don't take the risk. If you do decide to quit, plan out how long you can survive off your savings and give yourself a chunk of that time to get a business running that sustains you. If you don't make it in that time, you can get back into the workforce or freelance with your experience.

Having an idea helps, but be wary of working on ideas on the side, you likely have signed an invention assignment agreement with your employer.

[treis]

I think the issue is how it's phrased. OP said, effectively, I don't like my job, should I do a start up? Which is a terrible starting point for a business. If they said something like "I've got this great idea" then people would tell them to go for it.

There's this weird idea out there that Start Up is a job or company in itself. But it's not. Sure, companies will pivot and opportunities can come out of seemingly nowhere. That doesn't mean you just start something without a reasonable belief that it will work.

[muzani]

HN has one of the most risk averse communities, which is surprising for one started by a VC. Questions like this are going to get biased answers.