It’s been just over a month since I was last paid.  It’s starting to hurt now.  I’ve actually started to look for a real job.  Not sure I want a real job though.

I’m going to run a special this month as Orange Room Software where I will work on any project for $150 per day.

So, anyway, not wanting to get a real job has me thinking.  I came up with a great idea while searching for work on the internet.  I can probably do this in less than 90 days.  So I just need to get $15,000 to start it.  That’s really all I need is three months of my bills paid.

I’m pretty sure that I can do this.  I’m pretty sure that it will make some money too.  At least keep me paid for awhile.  So the question is funding.

I have been looking at Kickstarter.com and thinking about posting up my idea there to get funding for it.  But here is where I start to sound like all the people I used to work for; what if someone takes my idea…  Worse, what if I don’t get the funding and then someone takes my idea.

I know that just sounds stupid, but now that it’s my idea it doesn’t sound so stupid to me anymore.  I used to cringe when I heard that from partners on the many projects I worked on.  I would say, “nobody wants your idea.”  But this time, I think, someone out there would want my idea.  Of course my idea is probably not unique and there maybe a site out there already doing it.  I’ve been searching but I can’t find one, but still…

I think what I’m going to do is start working on my idea right away and get a prototype working.  Then I’ll think about funding.  I think I could do a prototype in about a week. (A week in Phill time is more like three weeks.)

Here goes nothing…