[saluki]

Stick with your job as long as possible, there isn't any better bootstrap funding than being employed at a software engineer rate. Sounds like a good transition would be to apply to https://tinyseed.com/

[sounds231]

Thanks I had forgotten about tinyseed!

[el_benhameen]

You might already be familiar, but Startups For The Rest Of Us, Start Small Stay Small, and The SaaS Playbook are all succinct resources for the software bootstrapper.

[simantel]

TinySeed only works with B2B companies, and based on your comment history it looks like this would be B2C.

I think your best bet would be trying to raise a pre-seed round if you wanted to bring in outside funding.