Ask HN: Bootstrap a small profitable product vs. chase large risky opportunity?

If you could build a small (1-2 devs working for couple of months), indie hacker style niche product that could guaranteed generate anywhere between couple of hundreds to few thousand $/month. Perks like total control over a small venture, joy of building, possibility of working on multiple of these type of projects etc.

And at the other end you have a typical VC style startups that would eventually require building team, raising capital and could fail or succeed in a big way.

What would you choose? Why?