When to Quit Your Job for Your Startup: The Bootstrapper's Test

Quit your job for your startup when three things are true at once: customers are paying you and staying, you have at least 12 months of personal runway after an emergency buffer, and you have one channel that brings in new customers without heroics. For a bootstrapped founder there is no seed round to pay your salary, so the cleanest trigger is revenue that already covers a large share of your living costs. If one gate is red, keep the job and fix that gate first.

This guide turns that answer into a test you can score tonight: a three-gate scorecard, a runway and "freedom number" formula with a worked example, the contract and IP checks to do before you write code, the US and UK health and tax basics from official sources, a pre-resignation checklist, and stop conditions for the day it does not work.

TL;DR#

• Quit on evidence, not on a date. Our test has three gates: demand evidence (paying, retained customers), personal runway (12 months or more after a buffer), and a repeatable channel. Green on all three means go; any red means keep the salary.
• Know your freedom number. It is the monthly revenue that covers your living costs after business costs and tax. Paul Graham's "ramen profitable" is the same idea: a startup that makes "just enough to pay the founders' living expenses" (Paul Graham).
• Check who owns your side project before you build it. UK guidance says you "usually will not own" IP you created as part of your work for an employer (GOV.UK); California Labor Code 2870 protects inventions made entirely on your own time without employer equipment or trade secrets, with exceptions (Cal. Lab. Code 2870). Not legal advice.
• Plan benefits and tax first. In the US, COBRA usually lasts up to 18 months (US DOL) and self-employment tax is 15.3% (IRS). In the UK, register for Self Assessment by 5 October after the tax year you started (GOV.UK).
• Expect the base rate to be harsh. The ONS says the five-year survival rate for UK businesses born in 2019 is 38.4% (ONS). Write your stop conditions before you resign.

Disclosure: ZeroRaised publishes this guide and is a launch site for bootstrapped products. Facts come from the linked sources as checked on 5 Nov 2026; ZeroRaised has no commercial relationship with the companies or people named. Nothing here is legal, tax or financial advice.

Freedom number: the monthly revenue your product must bring in so that, after business costs and tax, it pays your essential living costs without a salary.

Why is the answer different for bootstrapped founders?#

Most "when to quit" advice is written for founders who will raise money, where a term sheet replaces your salary. A bootstrapper has no such replacement: rent after you resign comes from customers, savings, a partner's income, part-time work or debt. The question becomes "can this product keep me alive long enough to find out?", and a founder who quits too early loses their own savings. The test below is built around protecting that downside.

If you are still deciding which way to fund the product at all, read our guide to ways to fund a product without venture capital.

What are the base rates for new businesses?#

It is worth knowing the odds before you bet your income on beating them.

These figures cover all kinds of businesses, from cafés to software, so they are not a forecast for your SaaS. But more than half of new businesses do not reach year five in either country. Plan so that being in that half is survivable; keeping your salary while you build is the cheapest insurance there is.

The three gates: what must be true before you quit?#

Each gate answers one question: will strangers pay and keep paying (demand), how long can you live if revenue stalls (runway), and how will the next 100 customers find you (channel)? Founders overweight the first and ignore the third. Twenty happy customers from one viral post is demand without a channel; when the post fades, growth stops and the runway clock keeps running.

Gate 1: demand evidence#

Demand evidence means money, not compliments. Waitlists, upvotes and "I'd use this" messages are weak signals; paid invoices are strong, and renewals stronger.

What we treat as green:

• Paying customers you did not know before you launched.
• At least two or three billing cycles of renewals, so you can see whether people stay.
• A churn rate you have measured and can live with.
• Customers who would be upset if the product disappeared.

If you are earlier than this, run a cheaper experiment first. Our guide on how to validate a SaaS idea before building covers pre-sales and smoke tests you can do on evenings.

Gate 2: personal runway#

Runway is how many months savings cover your living costs, after an emergency buffer you will not touch (calculation below). Green: 12 months or more, using today's revenue, not hoped-for revenue; more if you have dependants, a mortgage or no partner income. Twelve months is our rule of thumb, not a sourced standard.

Gate 3: a repeatable channel#

A channel is repeatable when the same effort next month brings roughly the same number of customers: search pages, a marketplace listing, outbound email, a referring partner. Green: one channel producing customers two months running, for reasons you can explain. Our guide to free marketing channels for bootstrapped makers lists channels that cost time rather than money, which is exactly what a side project has.

The quit scorecard#

Score each row red, amber or green, honestly.

How to read it. All green: you can resign with a plan. Any red: do not resign yet; work on the red row while employed. Mostly amber: consider a bridge such as part-time work or contracting (covered below) rather than a clean break.

The thresholds are our judgement, built for founders with no outside money. A founder with a working partner and no dependants can reasonably accept more amber than a single parent with a mortgage.

How do you calculate personal runway and your freedom number?#

You need two numbers: how long you can last, and how much the product must earn for you to never need the salary again.

Step 1: list your true monthly burn#

Use the last three months of bank statements, not a guess. Include housing, food, utilities, transport, debt repayments, pension contributions you will keep making, irregular costs averaged per month, and insurance, especially health cover your employer pays for today. Then make a "lean" version you could live on for a year without misery. Runway uses the lean figure; your freedom number should use one you could sustain for years.

Step 2: set your buffer aside#

Set aside an emergency buffer you will not spend on the startup: we suggest at least three months of lean burn. It lets you stop calmly or absorb a medical bill. It is not runway.

Step 3: calculate runway#

Deployable savings = Savings - Emergency buffer
Monthly shortfall  = Lean burn - Take-home from the product
Runway (months)    = Deployable savings / Monthly shortfall

"Take-home from the product" is revenue minus business costs, minus the tax you will owe on the profit.

Step 4: calculate your freedom number#

Freedom number = (Monthly burn / (1 - Tax rate)) + Monthly business costs

Use the tax rate that would apply to you as a self-employed person or company owner. In the US that includes self-employment tax, which the IRS sets at 15.3% (12.4% Social Security, 2.9% Medicare) on top of income tax. Payment processor fees belong in business costs; our payment fee calculator helps you estimate them.

Illustrative example: is this founder ready?#

Illustrative example. The figures below are invented to show the maths. They are not averages, and the tax rate is a placeholder, not a calculation of anyone's real tax.

Sam has a SaaS side project and a full-time job.

Freedom number: $3,600 / 0.75 = $4,800, plus $300 business costs = $5,100 MRR.

Current take-home: ($2,000 - $300) x 0.75 = $1,275 a month.

Monthly shortfall: $3,600 - $1,275 = $2,325.

Deployable savings: $30,000 - $10,800 = $19,200.

Runway: $19,200 / $2,325 = about 8.3 months.

Months to freedom at current growth: ($5,100 - $2,000) / $300 = about 10.3 months.

Verdict: red-to-amber. Sam's runway (8.3 months) is shorter than the time to reach the freedom number (10.3 months) even if growth holds, and revenue is 39% of the freedom number. If anything slows, Sam runs out of money before the product pays the bills.

Now rerun it with Sam waiting until MRR reaches $3,000 while still employed, and saving the same amount:

• Take-home: ($3,000 - $300) x 0.75 = $2,025.
• Shortfall: $3,600 - $2,025 = $1,575.
• Runway: $19,200 / $1,575 = about 12.2 months.
• Months to freedom: ($5,100 - $3,000) / $300 = 7 months.
• Revenue is 59% of the freedom number.

Same founder, same savings, a few more months in the job, and the picture flips: runway is now well over one and a half times the time needed to reach the freedom number. That is what "quit after traction" means in numbers.

Two quick ways to improve the maths without waiting: cut lean burn (each $100 cut raises runway and lowers the freedom number), or keep some salaried income through a bridge.

What does ramen profitable mean, and is it the right target?#

Paul Graham coined the term in his July 2009 essay. "Ramen profitable means a startup makes just enough to pay the founders' living expenses" (Paul Graham, "Ramen Profitable").

He was writing mostly for founders who might raise money, and his argument is that "the main importance of ramen profitability is that it buys you time." Once you reach it, he writes, "survival is the default, instead of dying" (Paul Graham). He also notes that it "is good for morale."

For a bootstrapper, ramen profitability is close to the ideal quit trigger: the job stops being necessary because the product does its work. Your freedom number is the honest version of it, because it includes tax, business costs and health cover, which "living expenses" can hide.

Graham also names a risk worth heeding: the biggest danger of ramen profitability, he says, is that "it might turn you into a consulting firm" (Paul Graham). If you reach your number by doing custom work for a few clients, you have swapped one boss for several. That can still be a good bridge, but count it as services income, not product traction.

To work out your own figure, use our ramen profitability calculator. Then compare it with your current MRR to place yourself on the scorecard.

You do not need 100% of the number before you quit: our scorecard treats 50% or more, with a long runway and rising revenue, as green.

How do you build your startup while still employed?#

Most bootstrapped products that succeed get their first customers on evenings and weekends. The constraint is time, so the skill is choosing what to do with very little of it.

Protect fixed time blocks#

Pick blocks you can keep every week and treat them like meetings you cannot move: for example, two 90-minute early mornings, one 2-hour weekday evening and one 4-hour weekend half-day. That is roughly 9 to 10 hours a week, and consistency beats sleepless sprints.

What to do with 5 to 10 hours a week#

With limited hours, the order of work matters more than the amount.

Rules we suggest for side-project time:

• Sell before you build. Pre-sell, take deposits or run a paid pilot. Our guide on how to bootstrap a SaaS covers this sequence end to end.
• Use boring technology and free tiers. Every hour spent on infrastructure is an hour not spent finding customers. See free startup perks without VC for credits you can claim without an investor.
• Keep a written log of hours, revenue, new customers and each customer's source. It becomes your scorecard evidence.
• Never use work time or work equipment. As the next section shows, that is an ownership issue.

Get to the first sales without quitting#

Your first 100 customers are a distribution problem, not a time problem, and founder-led sales, communities and launches all fit around a job. Our guide to getting your first 100 users breaks this into weekly tasks.

Does your employer own your side project? Check your contract first#

This is the step most founders skip, and it is the one that can cost them the company. This section is general information, not legal advice. Employment and IP law vary by country and state. If your contract is unclear, pay an employment lawyer for an hour before you build.

What to look for in your employment contract#

Read the whole contract and any staff handbook it refers to. Note the IP or invention assignment clause (does it reach work outside hours?), any moonlighting clause, confidentiality terms, restrictive covenants that apply after you leave, the notice period, and whether you can list prior inventions you already own.

UK: what government guidance and Acas say#

UK government guidance is direct: "You usually will not own the intellectual property for something you created as part of your work while you were employed by someone else" (GOV.UK, Intellectual property and your work). Note the words "as part of your work": a project unrelated to your job, built on your own time and kit, is in a different position, but your contract can still try to claim more.

Acas explains that employees also have an implied duty of fidelity, which means employees must not "make a secret profit", "work in competition with their employer" or "share confidential information that they learn while working for their employer" (Acas, Trust, confidence and fidelity). It adds that this duty "would not stop employees taking on extra work for a different employer", though you should consider whether the work competes with or harms your employer.

In practice, for a UK employee: a side project in an unrelated market, built entirely on your own time and equipment, with no use of confidential information, is the safest position. A side project that competes with your employer, or that targets its customers, is the riskiest.

US: California Labor Code section 2870#

California has a statute that limits invention assignment clauses. Section 2870 says an assignment provision does not apply to "an invention that the employee developed entirely on his or her own time without using the employer's equipment, supplies, facilities, or trade secret information" (Cal. Lab. Code 2870).

There are two exceptions. The protection does not apply to inventions that:

1. "Relate at the time of conception or reduction to practice of the invention to the employer's business, or actual or demonstrably anticipated research or development of the employer", or
2. "Result from any work performed by the employee for the employer" (Cal. Lab. Code 2870).

Two details matter. First, a contract term that tries to claim protected inventions is "against the public policy of this state and is unenforceable" under 2870(b). Second, section 2872 puts "the burden of proof" on "the employee claiming the benefits of its provisions" (Cal. Lab. Code 2872). In other words, you have to show you used your own time and equipment. Your written log of hours, a personal laptop and a personal account for every service are your evidence.

Other US states have their own rules, and many have none. Outside California, assume your contract governs unless a lawyer tells you otherwise.

US non-competes: the FTC rule is not in force#

You may have read about a nationwide US ban on non-competes. The FTC's own page now says: "The Noncompete Rule is not in effect and it is not enforceable", after a district court order on 20 August 2024 stopped enforcement and the FTC moved on 5 September 2025 to dismiss its appeal (FTC, Noncompete Rule). Non-competes are therefore governed by state law, so check the rules where you work.

Practical steps to protect ownership#

• Use a personal laptop and personal email, code and cloud accounts from day one, and never build on work time, networks or licences.
• Avoid your employer's market and customers if you can.
• If your contract has a moonlighting clause, get written permission that describes the project narrowly.

Should you go part-time or contract as a bridge?#

The choice is rarely "job" or "startup". A bridge can turn an amber scorecard green.

How to contract without killing the product. Cap client work at a fixed number of days per week, and price it high enough that you need few days. As the UK guidance above notes, self-employed people "usually own the intellectual property even if your work was commissioned by someone else, unless your contract with them gives them the rights" (GOV.UK), so read each client contract too.

Health cover, benefits and tax: what to sort out first#

Losing an employer means losing what the employer handled for you. Plan these before you resign, using official sources.

United States: health insurance#

• COBRA. The Department of Labor says COBRA lets workers who lose health benefits continue their group plan for limited periods after events such as job loss, and that it applies to plans "sponsored by employers with 20 or more employees in the prior year" (US DOL, COBRA). Coverage lasts "usually up to 18 months", and "you have 60 days to enroll in COBRA" (US DOL, EBSA).
• COBRA cost. You "may be required to pay the entire premium for coverage up to 102% of the cost to the plan" (US DOL). Get the real figure from your HR team before you quit; it is often a shock.
• Marketplace plans. HealthCare.gov says you may qualify for a Special Enrollment Period if you "lost qualifying health coverage in the past 60 days" or expect to lose it in the next 60 days (HealthCare.gov). It also says that when COBRA ends you have 60 days to enroll in a Marketplace plan, but voluntarily dropping COBRA does not count.
• Self-employed coverage. HealthCare.gov says savings are "based on your estimated net income for the year you're getting coverage, not last year's income" (HealthCare.gov, self-employed). A year of low startup income can change what you pay.

United States: tax#

• Self-employment tax. The IRS says the rate "is 15.3%": 12.4% for Social Security and 2.9% for Medicare. You must pay it if your net earnings from self-employment "were $400 or more" (IRS).
• Estimated payments. Individuals, including sole proprietors, "generally have to make estimated tax payments if they expect to owe tax of $1,000 or more when their return is filed" (IRS, Estimated taxes). With no employer withholding, set aside tax from every payout.

United Kingdom: tax and registration#

• Register for Self Assessment. GOV.UK says you must tell HMRC by 5 October 2026 if you need to complete a tax return for the 2025 to 2026 tax year and have not sent one before (GOV.UK, Register as self-employed). The same rule rolls forward each year: 5 October after the tax year ends.
• The trading allowance. HMRC guidance describes "a tax exemption of up to £1,000 a year for individuals with trading income", and says that if your gross trading income is over £1,000 you must register for Self Assessment by 5 October in the following tax year (GOV.UK, Tax-free allowances). This matters while you are still employed: side-project income over £1,000 already needs registering.
• Are you trading? GOV.UK lists signs that you are running a business, such as selling regularly or making things to sell for profit (GOV.UK, Working for yourself).

Also check what else stops: pension or 401(k) matching, life and income-protection cover, and vesting or bonus dates that might make resigning a few weeks later worth much more. Add the replacement cost of anything you will keep (health cover first) to your monthly burn, then rerun the runway and freedom-number maths.

How do you keep costs low after you quit?#

Every dollar of monthly cost you remove shortens the distance to your freedom number.

• Personal costs: the largest lever is housing. A cheaper flat, a lodger or moving in with family for a year can matter more than any software saving.
• Software costs: use free tiers and self-funded credit programmes. Our free startup perks without VC guide lists offers you can claim without investors, and our free tiers data tracks limits.
• Payment costs: compare processors and merchants of record before you scale; our payment fee calculator shows the difference on your volume.
• Marketing costs: stick to channels that cost time, not cash, until one is proven.
• Pricing: many bootstrappers undercharge. Raising prices is the fastest way to move revenue towards your freedom number; see how to price a SaaS product.

Real founders who quit after traction#

These examples use only the founders' own posts, with the numbers they published at the time. Each shows a different gate doing the work.

Patrick McKenzie: revenue gate first#

Patrick McKenzie ran Bingo Card Creator alongside a job in Japan. In his 2009 year-in-review he reported sales net of refunds of $31,156.18 and profit of $18,525.71, and wrote: "I'm currently making more than enough money to live off of on Bingo Card Creator ... and, depending on the month, have made more than my day job a few times" (Kalzumeus, 2009). In the same post he describes having "the first conversation with my boss to inform him that I am considering my options."

A year later he wrote that he "quit my day job and went full time on my business as of April 1st of this year. This was the best decision I have ever made" (Kalzumeus, 2010). On our scorecard, he quit at or above his freedom number: the cleanest possible green.

Nathan Barry: savings from the side project itself#

Nathan Barry built an iOS app, OneVoice, while employed. He wrote that "after slowly building OneVoice to $19,000 in profit (and keeping almost all of it in savings) ... I quit my full-time job" (Nathan Barry, 2011). In his 2012 review he added that when he left in October 2011 he earned $60,000 a year, and "had plenty of money in savings as well as some income from iOS apps" (Nathan Barry, 2012).

The lesson: side-project profit you do not spend is runway. His product had proved demand and funded the jump at the same time.

Tony Dinh: small revenue, long runway, low burn#

Tony Dinh's numbers look modest: "$300 MRR from Black Magic" and "$200/mo from DevUtils" in August 2021. What made the jump safe was the runway gate: "I have a saving of 2 years in the bank." His target was explicit too: "My goal was to get to $1K MRR in the first year, which would be enough for me to live comfortably in Vietnam forever" (Tony Dinh).

He also had a go-back plan: "My backup plan was to just get back to a full-time job if things didn't work out." That is a freedom number of about $1,000 a month, revenue already near half of it, two years of runway and a written stop condition. By our scorecard, that is green despite the small headline MRR.

What they share: paying customers before resigning, revenue near living costs or a long runway, and a product that already worked. None quit to "start" an idea. These are three examples, not a representative sample. Survivorship bias applies: founders who quit and failed rarely publish year-in-review posts.

What should you have in place before giving notice?#

Work through this list while you still have a salary. Every item is cheaper to do now than after you resign.

Money

• Three months of lean burn set aside as an emergency buffer.
• Runway of 12+ months after the buffer, calculated with today's revenue.
• Freedom number calculated, including tax, health cover and business costs.
• A separate business bank account, with tax set aside from each payout.
• Any large purchases, loans or mortgage applications done while you can show employment income.

Product and customers

• Paying customers you did not know before launch.
• Three or more months of renewal data.
• One channel that has produced customers for two months in a row.
• A written 12-month plan with monthly revenue targets.

Legal and admin

• Employment contract and handbook read: IP assignment, moonlighting, confidentiality, restrictive covenants and notice period noted.
• All startup accounts, code and domains in your personal or company name, never on work systems.
• Business structure decided (sole trader or company), and tax registration done where needed.
• Health cover plan with real prices (US: COBRA quote and Marketplace estimate).
• Vesting, bonus and holiday-pay dates checked.

People

• Partner or household agreed on the plan, the runway and the stop conditions.
• Two or three references you can rely on later, ideally in writing.
• Stop conditions written down and shared with someone who will hold you to them.

How do you quit your job well?#

Leave in a way that keeps the door open. Your former employer can be a reference, a customer, a source of contracting work, or a place to return to.

Give the right notice#

In the UK, Acas says that if an employee has worked for at least one month, "they must give a minimum of 1 weeks' notice", but the contract or a staff policy may require more (Acas, Notice when resigning). Acas says an employee who gives less than the contract requires, without the employer agreeing, is "likely to be breaching their contract", and the employer may be able to claim costs such as an agency replacement.

Acas also explains garden leave: your employer can tell you "not to work either part or all of their notice period", and you "must get paid as usual during their notice period" while still employed (Acas, When an employee is not required to work their notice). During garden leave you are still bound by your contract, so check before you launch anything new.

In the US, check your contract, offer letter and handbook for any notice requirement. Where there is none, we suggest giving at least two weeks anyway, because a reference is worth more than the days you save.

Respect restrictive covenants#

Acas lists four common types of restrictive covenant: non-competition, non-disclosure, anti-poaching and non-solicitation (Acas, Exclusivity clauses). It adds that an employer "will not usually be able to enforce restrictive covenants unless they're clear, specific and time-restricted", and that "this area of the law can be complex."

Practical rules:

• Do not contact your employer's customers or colleagues about your product until any non-solicit period ends, unless a lawyer has confirmed it is fine.
• Do not take documents, code, customer lists or contacts from work systems.
• Return all equipment and delete nothing that belongs to the employer.

Leave on good terms#

Tell your manager first, then confirm in writing. Offer a clear handover document, keep the reason brief ("I'm going full time on my own product" is enough), and ask for a reference or recommendation before you leave, while your work is fresh.

What is your 'go back' plan?#

Stop conditions are decisions you make while calm, so you do not have to make them while scared. Write them before you resign.

Set stop conditions in advance#

Pick two or three, with numbers and dates. Examples:

• Runway floor: "When deployable savings fall to three months of burn, I start applying for jobs."
• Revenue milestone: "If MRR is not at 60% of my freedom number by month nine, I take part-time or contract work."
• Channel test: "If no channel produces customers for three months in a row, I stop building features and spend 100% of my time on distribution for six weeks. If that fails, I go back."

The buffer you set aside is what makes these possible. It means hitting a stop condition is a planned job search, not a crisis.

Keep your way back open#

• Keep your skills current and your CV or portfolio updated.
• Stay in touch with former colleagues and managers.
• Write publicly about what you are building; it doubles as evidence of skill for your next job.
• Remember that a return to work is not the end of the product. Many products that stall full time can keep running, or be sold, as a side project. See how to sell software online for distribution options that keep working without you.

What are the most common mistakes?#

1. Quitting to "find time" for validation. Validation needs conversations and a payment link, not 40 hours a week.
2. Counting launch spikes as a channel.
3. Leaving tax and health cover out of the freedom number. US self-employment tax alone is 15.3% (IRS).
4. Spending the buffer, which turns every stop condition into a crisis.
5. Building on work equipment, or reading the contract only at the exit interview. In California the burden of proof is on the employee (Cal. Lab. Code 2872).
6. Becoming an agency by accident. Cap the services work.
7. Not agreeing the plan with your household, and having no stop conditions.

Where ZeroRaised fits#

ZeroRaised is a launch directory for products built without venture capital or accelerator equity. If you are building on evenings and weekends and want early users, you can submit your product for free. A listing is one more place for people to find you while you test channels; we do not promise traffic or results.

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Sources#

• Paul Graham, "Ramen Profitable", checked 5 Nov 2026
• California Labor Code section 2870, checked 5 Nov 2026
• California Labor Code section 2872, checked 5 Nov 2026
• GOV.UK, Intellectual property and your work, checked 5 Nov 2026
• Acas, Trust, confidence and fidelity, checked 5 Nov 2026
• Acas, Notice when resigning, checked 5 Nov 2026
• Acas, When an employee is not required to work their notice, checked 5 Nov 2026
• Acas, Exclusivity clauses and restrictive covenants, checked 5 Nov 2026
• FTC, Noncompete Rule, checked 5 Nov 2026
• US Department of Labor, COBRA, checked 5 Nov 2026
• US Department of Labor EBSA, COBRA, checked 5 Nov 2026
• HealthCare.gov, Special Enrollment Period, checked 5 Nov 2026
• HealthCare.gov, Coverage for the self-employed, checked 5 Nov 2026
• IRS, Self-employment tax, checked 5 Nov 2026
• IRS, Estimated taxes, checked 5 Nov 2026
• GOV.UK, Register for Self Assessment if you're self-employed, checked 5 Nov 2026
• GOV.UK, Tax-free allowances on property and trading income, checked 5 Nov 2026
• GOV.UK, Working for yourself, checked 5 Nov 2026
• ONS, Business demography, UK: 2024, checked 5 Nov 2026
• US Bureau of Labor Statistics, Table 7: Survival of private sector establishments by opening year, checked 5 Nov 2026
• Patrick McKenzie, Bingo Card Creator year in review 2009, checked 5 Nov 2026
• Patrick McKenzie, Bingo Card Creator year in review 2010, checked 5 Nov 2026
• Nathan Barry, How I made $19,000 on the App Store while learning to code, checked 5 Nov 2026
• Nathan Barry, 2012: the year of quitting my job, checked 5 Nov 2026
• Tony Dinh, My solopreneur story, checked 5 Nov 2026