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Ask HN: Quitting job to start a startup?

9 points by franca ↗ HN
I am 32 years old. I want to quit my current job in call centre, not earning enough. I have a few ideas that I want to execute. I am planning to start a startup. Before that I want to learn a bit coding. I prefer web programming as I have tried to learn js, html, and css in the past(2010-12). What are the current trends, what language should I learn? Help me build something that world want.

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laurieg
Don't quit your job to start a startup. At least, not at this stage. Practice coding in your spare time and work your way up to a programming job.
nik736
Quitting your job sounds like a bad idea. How many months can you survive without a salary? If the answer is < 12 months, or in your case < 24 months you should not even think about quitting. Learn to code on the side and if your coding skills are good enough you should build a MVP, preferably also on the side, to test how things will work out after quitting.
aaavl2821
If you're quitting because you aren't earning enough, probably not the best to do a startup. You'll probably earn nothing for at least a year if you start a company (generally you want enough savings to live at least a year with no income). If you are planning on learning web dev and coding your own product, it will be even longer before you are making money

Try testing some of your startup ideas with landing pages in html / css / js, and learning to code in your spare time, then if something takes off, quit

PeOe
Startups are great but it´s a lot of work until you earn money. You need to invest a lot of time and money, maybe you can win investors to kick-start your business. But before quitting your job, you should organize as many things as you can for your startup while you are working at this call centre. You could also step back and say you want to work part-time in the call centre and the other half you can work on your startup.
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saluki
y, don't quit your job.

Start listening to espisode one of StartUpsForTheRestOfUs.com and make your way through the archives. You can use Rob's stair step method to progress up to making a full time income.

As far as languages check out Laravel and Rails.

There are some great laravel resources out there.

Laracasts.com laravel.com forge.laravel.com