Taking the plunge .. having waited too long
Back in '08 me and my co-founder (CTO) had an idea that we've never be able to shake, he was a successful research fellow travelling the world speaking at conferences with Tim Berners-Lee on the semantic web (earning good money!) and neither of us took the plunge, which we always regretted.
During this time we worked through the night (with full time jobs) hacking together different apps but never really completing anything. Only to see in years gone by these apps created by people who did take the risk and build great companies. Wonder if this sounds familiar to anyone else?
So in June we met our now fellow co-founder (3 of us) and decided to take the plunge, left our jobs and began developing. Given all the risk and (often late night) concerns it's been the happiest period of my life for years! Spending every day working on something we believe in and watching it come to life is a wonderful feeling.
We are very close to releasing our alpha version, having had some great feedback from the handful of users we've tried it on so far. As it stands we are staying pretty stealthy on the project but we'd love some feedback from HN once we've launched, if your interested please sign up here: http://plan.nr
I'd be happy to answer any q's in the comments, or catch me on rich@plan.nr