u/Meraath

Quit job 8 months ago, runway getting thin. Help? (I will not promote)

The niche itself is very new, but validated, competition is popping up and I honestly really believe it has tons of potential although it's a very boring niche data business, it has a rapidly increasing market. We launched the MVP but something completely killed our SEO and got us deranked. We haven't pitched to investors yet because my co-founder thinks it's not good enough yet, needs an advanced feature as the core of the product, which right now I'm rushing to finish.

Problem is, I have about 10 months left of runway before my savings are empty, and that's after pinching the penny.

When do I decide to call it quits and move on to something else? For example, if we don't get an investor within the next 2-3 months? What then? Go find a job again? Or try a different idea? Or would I be in a wrong head space and there wouldn't be enough time to do anything (3 months to quit, 6-7mo runway remains).

BTW this 10 months runway isn't all my savings, it's just an average of what I'm comfortable risking. I wouldn't be homeless if I blow it all.

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u/Meraath — 10 hours ago

For non-tech people here: software developers and engineers rely a lot on ai coding tools like chatgpt and claude. Recently, these companies are running out fast of computing power, leading them to put usage limits, costing hundreds of dollars to be able to run the ai just a few hours a day. Previously you could run tens of AI agents with just a $100 or $200 plan, and the $20 plans for a single one. Now, you can barely run a single one on the $200 plan. Check out LLM coding and vibe-coding communities for all the complaints.

For the cherry on top, companies who did layoffs because "ai will replace developers" are reportedly back to hiring developers again because the ai cost is getting too high.

check subs like r/ClaudeAI or r/codex and similar subs and you'll see complaints all over, but since I don't want this to be anecdotal:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/ronschmelzer/2026/04/10/running-out-of-ai-tokens-faster-than-ever-heres-why

https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/ai-is-using-so-much-energy-that-computing-firepower-is-running-out-156e5c85

https://the-decoder.com/the-ai-industry-is-running-out-of-compute-with-outages-rationing-and-rising-gpu-prices/

https://www.azfamily.com/2026/04/16/companies-rehire-workers-after-ai-layoffs-boomerang-trend/

u/Meraath — 24 days ago