Are you solving a problem that people have and are willing to pay to get solved? I think that is one of the core insights from Lean Startups. Having a MVP done in a day is nice, but it will probably end up being tossed a week from now, and then you only have another week of runway.
I wish you the best, but would not advise your course of action to anyone. It is ridiculously dangerous and strictly inferior to either freelancing&startup or dayjob&startup at the stage you're currently in. (Since you can be doing anything during a "wait and see" stage, you might as well be getting paid.)
Agree. I'm currently not working and mainly focusing on building some products but my runway is about 10 months. Even with that I have been putting some effort into marketing myself and getting some interviews for work. With building a business, there is a much longer lag time between building the product and earning revenue compared to working for somebody else.
If you're down to $200, you need money now. Take up freelancing for the minimum number of hours that will cover your expenses. You should still have plenty of time left over to work on your ideas.
Thomas is going to get the cheapest and quickest entrepreneurial education available. Continual customer contact, fail fast, fail cheap, iterate.
In two sentences he encapsulates most of the Customer Development philosophy:
"1. now had something out there that people could actually use (and hopefully pay for)
2...now had my mind cleared of a lot that I didn't even realize was clogging it."
Entrepreneurship is a contact sport - No guts no glory.
I wish you the best, but would not advise your course of action to anyone. It is ridiculously dangerous and strictly inferior to either freelancing&startup or dayjob&startup at the stage you're currently in. (Since you can be doing anything during a "wait and see" stage, you might as well be getting paid.)