[ahoyhere]

I think that doing consulting while doing the side project -- which is what they did, and we're doing -- is much more manageable.

For most consulting agencies, there's no single client you always work with, so you have more variety of projects, less drudgery. And, assuming your field is related to your project, it's more likely that the consulting work will feed back into learning things that help you build your own stuff.

It's still pretty annoying, of course. Especially doing customer support for our side project is problematic.

But I personally think that doing our own projects has helped us get better, easier-to-work-with clients.

And if we had tried to force Freckle to pay our bills (there are four of us) right away, we would have had to make many more compromises than we have.

On the balance, I'd say we could be dealing better with the situation, but I certainly wouldn't have done the quit-the-dayjob thing myself.