[jasonkester]

Yes. A bit. Check out my comment history here for more detail but mostly it’s this:

Work remote contracts to fund yourself while building a saas business targetting real problems that companies will spend money on. Repeat as necessary until you hit a niche that works.

My first success was on try number six or so. The second was half a dozen tries later.

Good luck!

[rorykoehler]

It's basically what I'm doing however I have steered clear of B2B as I suspect the 10 hours a week will be hard to stick to once I have paying customers who have support requirements. How do you contain expectations in that regard?

[jasonkester]

My experience with businesses is that the bigger they are the less support they need.

All in, I spend maybe an hour a week on support, across my 2 paying products. Nearly all of that is for the cheapest accounts. Companies with money have people who know what they're doing, who can quickly figure out what the product does and how to set it up, and who then go use it as intended without needing any hand holding.

I picked 10 hours a week in my example because that's where it was when I was building those things "full time". Now that they are feature complete, it's a lot closer to zero. I haven't opened the IDE for either of my rent paying products since the summer.