[senordevnyc]

100%. I got laid off from my big tech job earlier this year and decided to use the opportunity to go full-time on my side project. After six months or so, it’s going amazingly well in terms of revenue growth, and I’m on track to support my family in NYC within the next six months. I really couldn’t be happier about how it’s going.

However, it’s also been much harder emotionally than I thought. Part of it is the pressure (I also have another kid on the way!), but it’s also just the loneliness. No one to really collaborate with, share wins and losses with, talk me down when things aren’t going well, etc. I applied to an incubator more for the social / cohort aspects than the funding, but I ultimately turned it down because some of the terms just felt too expensive.

I ended up starting a mastermind with some friends, AND joining a paid community for B2B saas founders. It’s OK so far, only been a couple weeks, but I’ve got to do something. I didn’t realize how hard this part would be!