While each situation is always different and you haven't provided many details about your business, here are some things to think of:
- As someone said already - if your MVP takes 12months to build, it's probably too big, especially if it's a B2C Website. Think of the very essentials your service/product will need and launch it as fast as possible. Then go to get as much feedback as possible from your target audience. You'll be surprised how what you think people need, might be the opposite of what they actually need.
- Are you using all of the off-the-shelf solutions already available to speed the website development? In my previous startup, our CTO has insisted in building a marketplace website from scratch, which ended up being a very lengthy process and it was always buggy because he needed to code even such basics like responsiveness from scratch. I later found a WordPress template for a marketplace that would have done 90% of what we need and we would have had it done in 1 month, instead of 6. So really look at platforms like Wordpress - they are a lot more powerful than you think and are really good for prototyping at least.
- If that website is something so huge and no-way can be stripped down - try to think from a different perspective. What is the purpose of the website? Is it to get you leads? Provide a service? Sell something? Maybe it can be already done by existing platforms like Instagram, Facebook Marketplace, Facebook Messenger Bots, Course using thinkify etc. etc. Is the website the only way to reach that goal?
These are the tips on how to make things faster than 12 months. By doing it - you will be able to test it quickly and will know if your idea is even worth changing your lifestyle or risking your financials and family love (probably nothing is really worth risking losing family support).
If you talked to your users, build an mvp, and it seems to be clicking with your target audience - then start thinking how to bootstrap most effectively. One of the best ways - to launch any sort of paid product and try to get a small income stream from your business already, this might help you to reduce your workload at the day job and then focus more on the main idea. Also, think of getting an intern. There are tons of great people out there who are willing to trade their time for nothing but real life experience (ofc, check your local laws are you required to pay your interns or not).
Anyway - wishing you all the best in your entrepreneurial journey. It's not possible to lose, because even if you fail - you learn.
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