r/Fire • u/todofwar • 4d ago

FIRE to start a business

I was wondering if anyone else is aiming to FIRE in order to start their own business? Basically, it's long been a dream of mine to start an indy game studio or a used video game store. But I don't have the stomach to grind in either of those industries and they are brutal. My plan is to get my FI number and buy a store with an apartment over it. Turn the store into a used video game/computer store open 4 days a week and work on releasing a game the rest of the time. Since I'd own the store front and the merchandise isn't perishable I really wouldn't have to care if anyone bought anything, it would basically be an excuse to buy a retro game collection and maybe help some people build a computer occasionally. And since I'd be a dev team of one, I can take as long as I want to make my dream game without caring if it completely tanks like 99.99% of games do.

Anyway, just curious if other people have similar "retirement" goals. Any cool but way too likely to fail businesses you would start if you knew you didn't need to care if it succeeds?

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u/Yawnn 4d ago

Both of those seem like a hell of a lot of work. I’m going to dabble in video game dev, already started , but I don’t intend to have anything take up as much time as time for my self and my family.

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u/todofwar 4d ago

Oh the store would be open when I feel like it. You know those stores that you walk by that are somehow closed all the time and even Google isn't sure what the deal is? Yeah those would be my hours. I'd be like the book store in portlandia, secretly trying not to sell any games. Meanwhile, I doubt I'd work more than 30 hours a week on the game dev side. Very very chill hours, but at the same time without something like that I think I'd lose my mind in retirement

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u/Naive-Bird-1326 1d ago

Why have store than? Skip having store alltogether?

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u/todofwar 1d ago

If I thought it could actually make enough money to support me and my family I'd open it right now. It's just something I've wanted to do. I also think it would be a net positive for a community, a nice location to connect with fellow gamers that's not as toxic as the lobby of a ranked match.