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Also running a solo company - https://fitloop.co I'm primarily a front-end dev so I keep things pretty simple on the back end side. Stack: Meteor, managed hosting on Galaxy MongoDB, hosted on Compose React GraphQL / Apollo API
Also running a solo company - https://fitloop.co I'm primarily a front-end dev so I keep things pretty simple on the back end side. Stack: Meteor, managed hosting on Galaxy MongoDB, hosted on Compose React GraphQL / Apollo API
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I ran a small company like this quite successfully earlier in my career. If you think this is awesome what goes unmentioned is how lonely it can get. Also, any issues you have (business or technology) you bear the brunt of alone. A coworking space doesn't really help either imo, if you like working with others you will miss having coworkers. Just something I think worth mentioning if you think this is something you m…
Yes, the worst thing is the huge amount of decision making even over very minor details that has to be done all the time. Coding and maintaining the servers isn't even that difficult. It's all the little stuff like scheduling with clients/vendors suppliers, wondering when is a good time to chase that invoice, which words to change in your proposal for this client, and so all. If you have employees, how to manage them…
Dedicate a given day of the month or week for all your meetings so scheduling is simpler.
Chase invoices on the same date every month, chase all invoices that are overdue by some threshold you have set. Just follow the rule, and chase using a template. Perhaps even code the first few chases into an automated system.
Try to avoid customized proposals, use templates for many things. I agree this one is hard.
Managing employees, you have to consider each employee is a force multiplier. The idea here is to invest a day to get a week or similar.
Overall, you need to just invest a limited time into each decision. After that time, go with what feels best even if it isn't perfect and move on. I find the same thing hard myself.
I ran a small company like this quite successfully earlier in my career. If you think this is awesome what goes unmentioned is how lonely it can get. Also, any issues you have (business or technology) you bear the brunt of alone. A coworking space doesn't really help either imo, if you like working with others you will miss having coworkers. Just something I think worth mentioning if you think this is something you m…
The lonely aspect is incredibly difficult, especially if you're an extroverted person that draws their energy from collaborating with others. I also find the lack of accountability to others as hard. I know there are services that cater to this type of founder/freelancer.
> Wait, how about Docker / Kubernetes / serverless? Nope. As you gain experience, you know when not to over-engineer. I actually did some early Docker work for my previous employer back in 2014, which was good for a mid-sized billion-dollar startup but may be overkill for a one-person tiny startup. I really think the key thing here is familiarity. K8s is a bit different, but certainly in OP's position I (personally!)…
Using containers without k8s is much much simpler if you need a container. Learning system packaging and how to rebuild src packages is much much simpler than managing a container ecosystem Think about this... if it was so easy to manage containers why does redhat still ship its operating system in packages ?
I ran a small company like this quite successfully earlier in my career. If you think this is awesome what goes unmentioned is how lonely it can get. Also, any issues you have (business or technology) you bear the brunt of alone. A coworking space doesn't really help either imo, if you like working with others you will miss having coworkers. Just something I think worth mentioning if you think this is something you m…
This feels like bragging but I also run a one man company and the loneliness is what I enjoy most. Granted, I only work from 08:45 to 14:30 and some hours in the evening, because I bring my kids to school and I pick them up in the afternoon, but the hours when I’m alone, I am 100% productive. When the kids are at home I mostly do some kind of manual labor to get some sort of exercise. Right now I’m building a shed. L…
- golang, gopherjs, bootstrap, DO, and kubernetes.