> The flipside is that a lot of developers don't have enough hobbies to draw from with which to start a business.
This was (is?) definitely me. I have a grand total of three hobbies: Building software (also my job), playing WoW and reading.
I couldn't think of any business idea that I could build off of WoW (and I'm pretty sure Blizzard doesn't allow that), so I took a different route for finding a problem to solve:
I surfed through small business forums and picked the problem that most people were complaining about. That happened to be inventory management.
(I'm happy to say I've since quit WoW, on account of the nonexistent IRL returns).
This was (is?) definitely me. I have a grand total of three hobbies: Building software (also my job), playing WoW and reading.
I couldn't think of any business idea that I could build off of WoW (and I'm pretty sure Blizzard doesn't allow that), so I took a different route for finding a problem to solve:
I surfed through small business forums and picked the problem that most people were complaining about. That happened to be inventory management.
(I'm happy to say I've since quit WoW, on account of the nonexistent IRL returns).