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I’m a product-focused dev with 10 years experience at a-list startups. For the last few years I’ve been working on a side project. It has some traction and makes ~$600/mo even though my current product is pretty raw.

I’ve recently put a lot of thought into the product and realized that there is a real gap in the market that I can fill and make this into a real business. This requires a pretty significant amount of work, which I’m slowly chipping away at with 2-3 hours per day. Of course there may be unknown unknowns but the path to something like ~$1M/yr seems very clear to me.

Circumstances at my current day job have been getting progressively worse and I think it’s time to move on. I’m not full-burnout unhappy (yet), but getting more resentful every day. Unfortunately I don’t have enough cash saved up for significant runway. I’m 35 with family and living in the US so eating ramen and sleeping on a friends couch isn’t an option.

I’m trying to figure out my options. Maybe try to find angel funding. Maybe a business loan (is that even a thing?). Or should I just grind it out and stick with my current job.

Appreciate any and all advice. Especially if you’ve been in my position

It's hard to know where to look, what to believe, or who to trust regarding COVID-19. I doubt that anything you can find on a major news site, or anything ranking highly in search engines is unbiased.

I'd like to compile a list of resources (mail lists, videos, talks etc) that are at least somewhat reputable or trustworthy, not sponsored or skewed--experts who have done (or are doing) their homework and working to educate others. Of course no one knows the real whole state of the world with 100% certainty, but I know there are people who know better than me, and I'd like to find them!

If you were going to build a consumer mobile app as fast as possible, as a one-man or one-woman dev team, what technologies and tools would you use to build out the server side? Say you have 1 week to put together an MVP.

One answer is that one should use the technologies he/she is most familiar with, but what would you recommend to skilled engineers who are most experienced with client development?

Specifically, are there tools that significantly speed up the api development process, e.g. scaffolding tools, or stuff like Amazon API Gateway + Lambda?