Work on products, or take a break for (seemingly) lucrative consulting?
lsemel: Questions for you to think about to help make your decision:- Will the extra money from consulting reduce any worries you have about money, thereby letting you focus on the product more?- Would consulting save you from having to take a full time job, giving you extra time work on the product?- Can you consult on something very similar to your product, own the IP, and use it as a way to learn about your market?- Can you take whatever custom thing you'd be building as a consultant and instead develop a product out of that, and then sell the product to your consulting customer?- Can you outsource part of the consulting, so you're just designing the software, managing the project, and reviewing their work, thereby saving time and drudgery, and letting you mark up the outsourced hours?- Could you meet good people consulting? (i.e. are you consulting for a startup or tech company, as opposed to some company in an unrelated line of business?)- Can you use the consulting gig to learn about tools or technologies you want to use in your own startup?  Can you use the consulting to learn about a market that your startup is targeting?- Can you talk to more experienced consultants and get tips on how to charge more and manage clients better?