I shared my app a day ago and I’ve realized that I’m not ready to be an entrepreneur yet.

First off I want to say I really appreciate everyone in this community. You guys are really supportive and helpful and that’s amazing. I wish you all success.

But yeah I’m not ready for this. First of all I picked a horrible project to try and make by myself. It’s a social app that anyone can join for free. This is fine but I didn’t think enough about moderation and even just making fixes to things that come up as your app scales. I’m trying to do this with a full time job, handling both at the same time means committing almost all my time to working even if the project is something I enjoy.

I also just graduated and started my career a few months ago. Working on the app has made it all that’s on my mind to the point where it’s interfering with my productivity at work. At first I didn’t really care because I thought the app would be able to support me so I didn’t have to worry about work but that’s not true. Mainly because making something successful takes a really long time especially making it successful enough to live off of it. I don’t want to ruin my future for a dream. If I wait and have a few years experience and then spend a lot of time it’s fine because I’ll have the experience to find a job if I need to even if I quit to work on my side project full time.

I have a lot of growth to do as a person. I’m still young and I’m not ready to lead a company yet. I get really anxious about stuff and I’m not a born leader. These are all skills I can learn and improve at during my job right now. On top of that the time commitment for this on top of my job means giving up too much time that I want to spend with my friends and family.

This doesn’t mean I’m giving up just waiting for the right time. Next time I know what I’ll do differently. First I’m starting a project with 2 other people so the work isn’t too crazy and the mental load of worrying if your project succeeds isn’t all on me. Next I’m going to spend more time thinking about how to deal with problems as my project scales. I’m also going to not build it out as much as I did without seeing how it scales with real people. I really think it’s not worth succeeding on your first project, it’s too overwhelming. I’d rather succeed on my 100th then it’ll be a lot more satisfying.

I also have no regrets. I learned a lot from the experience and had literally hundreds of people give me really good feedback. I got over 600 people on my app with just a few posts. It’s probably the coolest project I’ve ever worked on and I’m excited to show people what I can accomplish when I’m looking for new opportunities in the future. I guess I’m gonna stay a wannabe hacker for a few more years but I’ll be back, don’t worry.