Question for the #buildinpublic folk. How are you currently sustaining yourself? (working on your projects on the side while maintaining a job, living off of savings, making a living off of your project already, etc.) Advice is appreciated! 😄
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For me, I dedicated a day a week (approx) on it, reducing commitments to fit it in. Built for a long time. Arranged things around protecting core time.
The diminishing returns are fast after that. Tried going full time too early. Expensive lesson to not scale until ready.
1. I’m using time blocking and reserve some time for each project
2. Work smart, not hard. When you fill your calendar it will be clear - time is limited. I optimized my job. Most of the day I can finish my full time within 4h
3. I’m working on my health: both mental and physical
I don’t build anything commercial(my employment contract gives IP rights to anything I build to my employer), I use free time at work for hobby projects. If I were to go indie path, I would build on side. If it took off, I’d just make my SO the owner and build slowly on my free time.
Have a 9-5 that pays pretty well.
Sometimes I think about quitting to have more time on my side projects, but living off of savings just makes you stressed and you start to rush things. I'll wait until I have at least some income from my porjects to sustain myself
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The diminishing returns are fast after that. Tried going full time too early. Expensive lesson to not scale until ready.
Focus on customers.
But, for tech people, it often fells uncomfortable and hard to test and build the market for the idea.
Especially if you are building a new category (better build out from an existing one).
Get someone trusted on board early to do what you suck at.
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2. Work smart, not hard. When you fill your calendar it will be clear - time is limited. I optimized my job. Most of the day I can finish my full time within 4h
3. I’m working on my health: both mental and physical
Sometimes I think about quitting to have more time on my side projects, but living off of savings just makes you stressed and you start to rush things. I'll wait until I have at least some income from my porjects to sustain myself