Tell HN: I'm freee

I hope you had a firm grasp on the next vine before you let go! Good luck:-)

Congratulations. Wishing you the best.

(^.^) Congrats!! GL&HF.

Congrats, do you have any plans yet on what extra things to accomplish with that free time?

Has anyone kept track of the others who've posted about quitting their job to do a startup in the past?

Looking at your site, you absolutely must add pictionary functionality. Shouldn't be that hard, since you already have the visual part + I believe the chat, so all you need to do is make some keyword lists and bam.

Separate yourself from other pictionary sites by making more niche specific keyword lists. And throw up a site-wide monthly league for users to compete with each other

Good on you, mate. I just watched the Dabbleboard video, and was really impressed with what you've created!

I've played with Dabbleboard a bit in the past, and I think that it is a great tool. I have to admit though, I haven't been following it that closely. How are you planning to make a living off of it? I'm just curious. I'll understand if you would rather not answer that.

Excellent! Congrats to you! I first used dabbleboard a few months ago, linked through HN, and have gone back many times since. Fantastic and well-executed tool indeed.

You're an inspiration, quiting my day job is the dream! "Starting up" is the reality.

Nice The Who ref.

Great news. I, unfortunately did not see DabbleBoard prior to this post, but I saw your demo, and was impressed. Great job! Here's wishing you luck, and success.

Cheers!

Congrats! Best of luck, make it happen...stay positive and it will.

All the best with your start up. If you don't mind what is the business model - your main source of revenue will be ads?

Congratulations!! Good luck and keep post on HN on how it goes!

Some thoughts about being there (back on rat race as now):

- You will feel better right away, what you said about being free its excatly right, and you realize how depressing was being trap on a cubicule kissing ass.

- Money is much easier to get, you realize that a salary is peanuts compared with how much you can do on your own if you make it.

- Live like a cockroach, the thing about not knowing where or if my next check will come make me realize I could live (and save money!) with half of what I made with a weekly salary, and in the past I was under credit card debt for going out meals and worthless stuff.

-You will find out that the urgency and strees to find an income will be a great motivation to make it. That is one of the biggest disadvantages in a job you do not have that feeling and that is probably what really makes the difference on the long run.

-Be honest to yourself and decide what you do ASAP, think it thru and once you decide give it all. Be quick on this on 2 things: to see if the field you choose have future and to move to try another thing fast, make sure you go into vocation whatever it may be.

-Dont fool yourself into laziness, have an area free of distractions and give it all. Family can suck all your time if you do not have clear boundaries and scheduale.

Little bit of my story:

- I was lay off in march, decided to sell some products, realized my bussiness model was not possible on the long run (I was not the owner of what I sell, mostly like an employee), but it gave me half of what I used to make on an office, and much better life, lots of free time.

If I had the same opportunity, I will have an "office" and scheduale, decide on a bussiness for the long run, not just to make money fast, be honest on doing what I liked even if took some time.

Good luck making it.

Congrats - great idea, well executed. I can't wait to start using this.

Question to you or anyone else on this thread - are there any tools out there that could convert a UI mockup for a webpage (like one created with Dabbleboard or Basalmiq) into standards compliant html/css?

Congratulations. I blooged about Dabbleboard a while ago, but blimey - with the new tool set, I'm going to need to blog again.

Brilliant work