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Ask HN: As a founder how does your weekends look like?
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Re: Ask HN: As a founder how does your weekends look like?
#2I try to stop work by Friday evening and start up again Monday morning but lately I've been using Sunday nights to get an early start on the work week.
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#3What are these weekends of which you speak? :)
Just kidding, I'm in an 18 year old company so my weekends are pretty sweet. Driving tractors and stuff.
But when we started, and even now, it is rare that more than 6 hours go by and we haven't checked email. We are weird, we do pretty great support so people check emails on weekends to see if there is a big problem. If there isn't, off we go to some fun. If there is, rally the troops and get it fixed.
We're in the enterprise software space so it's sort of expected that we have some coverage on weekends.
All that said, if we do our job right, weekends are pretty boring. Which is why we peer review everything and regression test everything. Even with that some stuff slips through but not very often. We did a .0 release 6 weeks ago, found one bug, about to push a .0.1 release out the door. Boring. Which is how I like it.
Re: Ask HN: As a founder how does your weekends look like?
#4What are these weekends of which you speak? :) Just kidding, I'm in an 18 year old company so my weekends are pretty sweet. Driving tractors and stuff. But when we started, and even now, it is rare that more than 6 hours go by and we haven't checked email. We are weird, we do pretty great support so people check emails on weekends to see if there is a big problem. If there isn't, off we go to some fun. If there is, r…
My situation is similar. 18-year old company. At weekends I check email occasionally, but don't reply until Monday unless it's an urgent issue (which it generally isn't).
There generally should never any need to do any work on weekends unless it's an unusual situation. You're just reducing your overall productivity if you work too much. Having said that, sometimes I do work on problems over the weekend just for the fun of it.
Re: Ask HN: As a founder how does your weekends look like?
#5I use weekends to do experimental work ... trying out new frameworks, or different machine learning strategies, which I'm doing right now, 2am Saturday morning :)
Sometimes I take 1 or 2 hours off during the day to play some PS4 ... dont push myself too hard in the weekends
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#6i like to get more online learning, because these days are busy days and you only have one time at a time. so yeah, learning while you can ! :p
Re: Ask HN: As a founder how does your weekends look like?
#7I'm flying up to Silicon Valley tomorrow (from LA) to host a user group meeting. I don't do that every weekend; usually I try to balance work, family and church. But yeah, there's work. (5 year old bootstrapped company; doing it full-time for the last 4 months only. 1 employee, in training.)
Re: Ask HN: As a founder how does your weekends look like?
#8What are these weekends of which you speak? :) Just kidding, I'm in an 18 year old company so my weekends are pretty sweet. Driving tractors and stuff. But when we started, and even now, it is rare that more than 6 hours go by and we haven't checked email. We are weird, we do pretty great support so people check emails on weekends to see if there is a big problem. If there isn't, off we go to some fun. If there is, r…
My situation is similar. 18-year old company. At weekends I check email occasionally, but don't reply until Monday unless it's an urgent issue (which it generally isn't). There generally should never any need to do any work on weekends unless it's an unusual situation. You're just reducing your overall productivity if you work too much. Having said that, sometimes I do work on problems over the weekend just for the f…
Emails are very tempting. I am on the same boat but, I have been working with a remote team and usually happen to work a lot during weekends because of timezone issues. Working with 5 year old company (remote), bootstraped and I recently moved to Bay Area. Was wondering how it goes with other founders here. Thanks for writing.
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#9Uhhhh, the usual, restless sleep, wake up at 7am, check email, check bank account balance, silent panic, cold sweats, yesterday's coffee, 2 days ago Pizza, a few dozen rejection emails from assorted VCs and angels, listen to cofounder latest complaints against team he hand picked and trained himself, checks site, checks google analytics, one transaction, a faint smile, a hope of a better future, an attack of naivete, and Monday is here again....
Re: Ask HN: As a founder how does your weekends look like?
#10we meet a lot of users during the week (and also sometimes have other meetings) so weekends are a really great time to focus on the product and build slightly larger changes to test during the week. fewer distractions and emails on the weekend