[ciphol]

Are there any other pieces of software you want to write? Depending on your financial situation, see if you can quit or take off your job for a year and write it. The years aren't going to come back to you, and you don't want to die having pushed off your dream until it was too late...

[mkl95]

The number of side projects I have had to leave aside in the last few years is close to a dozen. I was able to implement some of my smaller ideas and I open sourced them, which boosted my career. But I don't want them to be a means to an end, I want to actually have the time to build them properly and make a living off one of them some day.

Unfortunately my country has infamously low salaries while having a relatively high cost of living. I have some savings, but I would burn them at a pretty fast rate if I quit my job. My best chance at having another "miracle year" is getting fired, which would immediately provide me with some more liquid cash plus monthly unemployment benefits for a while. At that point I could move to one of the cheaper areas and be financially independent for years.