Quitting My Job to Build Something Meaningful—Was It Worth It?
Five years ago, I was just another dev working a stable but boring job, building stuff I didn’t care about. One day, a friend messaged me: “Yo, you heard of Hugo? Static site generator. Fast as hell. Uses Markdown.” I checked it out. And it hit me—this is what I actually wanna build for. Clean tools. No bloat. Full control. So I quit my job to make something of my own. ...