How did I leave my full-time job to become an Indie Hacker?

After a decade of dreaming about starting up my own, I have finally quit my job to pursue my dream to build something that empowers people to bring their ideas to reality.

I have:

a wife
a toddler
a mortgage
savings for the next 6 months and
a conviction to pursue the dream

Follow me to see if I made it in 6 months.

Continue to know my story:

I have been thinking about being a founder since 2nd year of my college. In 1st year after getting the worst grade in a very long time, I realised I couldn't stand a chance to succeed if I focussed only on academics.
My nitwit brain at that time could see only two options: Either I should quit and go back home, or I could focus on something that I would love to do for the next four years of college.
One thing I knew I was enjoying was building logic circuits in our Electronics club. The feeling of making something tangible and seeing it work had me hooked. I started chasing it like a mad dog.
That introduced me to project-based learning. I started working on multiple projects, some with professors, some for competitions, and some just for my intellectual curiosity.
After this, all four years of college passed in a snap; when I looked back while preparing my resume for the placements, I had completed 30+ electronics and computer science projects and improved my overall grades.
I still haven't had an idea for which I would feel enough conviction to leave placements and pursue it to build a startup. So I sat in college placements and got placed in Samsung R&D Bangalore.
Within a year, I realised I am not meant for bureaucratic organisations and deal with office politics. I left it to join an early-stage startup Elanic. I drowned myself in learning how to build reliable, scalable, and adaptable systems.
During my tenure, many of my friends would reach out to me so that I could help them build their products. Even though I wanted to, I couldn't because of the lack of time and energy. But I would consult and help them design their technical solution.
I developed an insight that 80% of the codebase for the proposed solutions could be shared across different industries. If I could abstract out 80% of the code I have already written, building the next 20% should be a piece of cake.
On 24th April 2017, I bought the domain http://vadelabs.com to build a product that would make it possible.
I embarked on the journey to work in various industries, including e-commerce, blockchain, social media, developer tools, human resources, job portals, insurance, prop tech, food tech, etc.
Though it has been a gruelling journey for me, it has been equally fruitful. Developer experience in multiple industries has helped me to develop a pattern that could enable us to build something that could become the future of software development.
So, with enough conviction to do it, my wife's faith in me, and the support of my parents and in-laws to take care of the kid, I decided to go full-time to bring my dream to reality so that it could make your ideas real.
That brings me to today; we are working days and nights at Vadelabs to build the product's first version along with some fantastic interns to help us out.

Finally, I wish to say thank you for reading my story. 🙏

I am sure you have comments. Let me know what you think. And if you need any help building your product, feel free to reach out.

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