It’s been a little over a month since I received my last paycheck as a full-time Developer. That’s the day shit got real.

I spent over a decade building products with great people at a Fintech company. Walking away from the comfortable six-figure job was hard, but ignoring my thirst for more was even harder. The decision to leave was easier knowing I had two chatbots in Slack’s App Directory. Both with thousands of installs, tons of dedicated users, and one starting to generate revenue. The door to botrepreneurship was waiting for me to walk through.

The Start

Around this time last year I began my exploration into chatbots. I had no idea of the onslaught that would soon develop. I was spending sleepless nights learning Node.js and tireless...