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Started my company, NoteToServices, as an official LLC back in 2015. I didn't want to keep creating products and putting my name, so now I had a company that "owned" all these products I was building. I've never made anything that actually has made me enough money to quit my day job, and I'm always going back and working or re-working my projects, and the never-ending ideas where I just keep building and building and…
I've been working (mostly) solo on an open-source application for the last 5 years (3 years as a side-project, last 2 years full-time). It has been a lot of ups and downs with a burn out in the middle. Among the downs: having FOMO when I wasn't working on the project during week ends, feeling guilty for not spending time with my family when I was working too much on it, feeling lonely and doubting all my decisions, t…
What motivates me the most is customers emailing me asking for specific things, or keeping me accountable.
It's ok to take breaks. We're here for the long run.
You can't please everyone.
Stay true to your values.
I am a solo founder even though I have built a small team. This shit is hard. Like really hard. Really really really hard. This is my 9th year and I can't tell you how many times I self doubt. Yet I keep going. Keep pushing. I am nowhere I wanted to be 9 years ago but I have seen just enough moderate success that I see a better future. I strive to get better. Not just make more money but learn. I have learned so much…
Thanks for taking time and responding. Would you be open for a quick zoom call?
Create a private Discord server, and create a second user account in another browser profile to be the "manager".
Then chat to yourself.
The rule is that the manager cannot code, and must delegate all tasks, and is obsessed with shipping fast. Write a small document of the manager's explicit goals, what they like and dislike in employees.
I find when managing real people at work there is a big difference in your behavior when you aren't allowed to code - there is much more clarity into what is really important.
It's silly, but maybe it works.