[poulsbohemian]

I was you about a decade ago... I can't stress enough that if you don't have serious money in the bank or rich friends, you need to keep your day job and bootstrap. One approach I've seen work well even though it may be slow and frustrating - use the proceeds from your day job to hire a developer to do the work. You create the work plan, let someone else fill in the gaps. You focus on marketing / customer interaction to grow the product. Alternatively, keep burnin the midnight oil.

I do not recommend anything that smells like a "loan." This is speculative stuff you are doing, and a loan means you'll be on the hook to pay it back regardless of how it works out.

[drewcoo]

Maybe find a new day job and keep that one if you're headed toward burnout.

[DarrenDev]

> use the proceeds from your day job to hire a developer to do the work

Interesting and timely. I'm close to doing this now - the time just isn't there to devote to the product and the day job, and the product needs an 8 hour a day developer for 6-12 months. Do you have any examples of where this worked to get something new off the ground.

[poulsbohemian]

I've seen multiple people on HN espouse this idea over the years. Likewise, if you are in a place that has tech meetups / and entrepreneurial ecosystem, I guarantee you'll be able to find people who have followed this path. Think of what an entrepreneur without tech skills would do - they would have to find someone to build their product. You've just got a leg up by virtue of also understanding what that hired person or team is actually doing.