You see, this is exactly what I was thinking. But almost everyone seems to be against this idea. My parents , even an entrepreneur I recently met up with. He told me that I should drop out only when my business starts making money to the point where I need to drop out to work on it. He said until then, get an education and work on side projects.
Nobody wants to be the guy who gives the risky advice because what if you're a normal person? Then I'd be telling you to do something that would screw your future up. But I'm assuming you're not a normal person.
The world will not tell you what to create explicitly. Only "gurus" tell you there's a specific thing you must do to be successful. It doesn't work like that, chasing trends like amazon selling and whatever you see ads for on youtube pre-roll videos. But if you open your own two eyes you'll see opportunity everywhere to be a great businessman and change the world. In fact there's so much opportunity most people don't see it because they are looking for something that stands out, when in fact it's everywhere so it blends in.
If you take the next step and drop out. I can almost promise your life will take a dark turn. You will realize everything is harder than you imagined, twice as complicated as you imagined, more expensive than you imagined, less profitable than you imagined, etc..and I would wager for the next full year you will need insane amounts of nothing but faith and sweat to keep going. Everyone feels phases of hopelessness pushing in on them. The difference between winners and losers is what happens when that hopelessness pushes in. Will you have enough faith to say it's possible even if nothing is going right? Hard times are not signs of being a failure. It's a test. Your response to hard times is the deciding factor if you've got it or not. Some people are soft. Some people have ice in their veins.
But fear and despair in hindsight is nothing more than a good story and a laugh. You'll fondly look back on the moments you thought you couldn't make it but kept going and feel a tremendous amount of pride. Not because you're a winner, but because you had faith when everything and everyone said you were a loser. I look back on many moments and thank myself for not listening to the opinions and advice of people around me. I think that's the true reward of being in business. Not money. Just looking in the mirror and knowing without a doubt you've got a real pair of balls. Just my opinion, but I've got a feeling most people sitting in a nursing home staring at a wall are thinking about how they wish they had more courage in many different ways.
I would stop asking people for their thoughts on your choices. I would just tell them after I've done it. It will take time, but you'll realize that nobody can give you better advice than yourself. I'll ask people for help, information, assistance. But guidance is never outsourced.
Life is long and you should expect to fail quite a bit but if you can trick yourself into thinking "this time it'll work" 10 times over, then you'll eventually be right.
I dropped out. Best thing I ever did. It matters less than you think. I don't even think the debt is the worst part. If you knew how valuable opportunity cost and your time is, the money is nothing in comparison.