I'm curious how much time you guys are devoting to your work? I have a FT job and I'm working on my own project that may become the basis for a startup or remain just something neat to showcase and develop my skills. Over the last four months I've managed around 2-3 days a week, which adds up to around 10-12hrs of coding a week.
Ask YC: Are you working part-time on your startup/project/idea?
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#2I feel that THIS summer will be THE summer that I turn one of my projects into a startup, so in the past month, I've quit full time work and moved into a cheaper place to live.
I'm currently doing requirements gathering for my first project, and I've already done around 400 lines of coding. I wish I wasn't alone.
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#3I've found that I really enjoy my job, so my outside projects have started to shift from "this might make me money someday" to "this is really fun to code!" things.
It's weird how stability (and yes, coming from consulting and startuppery, this lion freely recognizes his gilded cage) and lack of where-is-my-next-paycheck-coming-from frees the mind to coding pure-fun stuff.
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#4I feel that THIS summer will be THE summer that I turn one of my projects into a startup, so in the past month, I've quit full time work and moved into a cheaper place to live. I'm currently doing requirements gathering for my first project, and I've already done around 400 lines of coding. I wish I wasn't alone.
You are not alone. ;)
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#5I don't enjoy my current job at all. I work part time in a non-tech related job. the rest of my time is spent thinking about what projects to best devote my time to and experimenting.
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#6Hey, i've spend more than 4 hours per day, and 10 hrs more for weekend, so together added up to 40 hours a week. And i'm keeping this for months now.
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#7I feel that THIS summer will be THE summer that I turn one of my projects into a startup, so in the past month, I've quit full time work and moved into a cheaper place to live. I'm currently doing requirements gathering for my first project, and I've already done around 400 lines of coding. I wish I wasn't alone.
you're sure not alone ^^
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#8When I was ramping up my last startup, I met my cofounder about 4 days a week after work and we worked until 9 or 10 at night.
I've found that when I go from "this is a cool project" mode to "going to turn this into a company" mode, the hours just start piling on.
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#9The past few months I have been working my FT job, and also working on my start-up every spare moment I have (I would say 25 - 30 hours per week. Come June, I will be quitting the FT job and focusing exclusively on the startup.
I have been working FT for a large company for the past 5 years (past year remotely from home) and am really excited for moving to full time on my startup.
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#10i have a fulltime job and freelance...
i spend the time i have left after doing freelance at home to work on my "idea" - building something i need (and hopefully others would want it too...) and for the experience. basically it is like hitting two birds with one stone.