Ask HN: Would you build it in house or quit your job first?

Never said I subscribed to “If you build it they will come” thinking and it's not the question asked. I have no illusion on what it takes to build a product, then a company around it, and the amount of work it takes to make both successful.

They could attempt to sell it back to the organization. I was never happy with my work's solution for url shortening at scale (we wrote more links than bit.ly by a wiiiide margin, and each link would likely only be clicked a few times at most). Talking with the cofounder, he said, "you know, if someone (cough, you, cough) was really smart, they would solve this and then work to be bought out by us." I didn't have the risk tolerance at the time.

None yet that I've talked to directly, except of maybe 2. This isn't a brand new market, it is just one that my employer isn't focusing on because the ROI is too low for them.