How to start a company with no free time

Re:How to start a company with no free time by xrd on Friday November 18, 2016 @03:51PM (#12989974)

I didn't start a company but wrote an app I'm very proud of. And that app put me in a position to write a book for O'Reilly. I did lots of the coding and writing at 3 am when my wife was asleep and I was up with one of the kids. Kids are great at forcing you to focus and prioritize, things I was never great at before they arrived. And, kids teach you what's really important and that is a good lesson when running a company.

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Re:How to start a company with no free time by roryisok on Friday November 18, 2016 @03:55PM (#12990002)

I have two kids, and my coding time is suffering. How the heck did you code while up with your kid at 3am? What was the kid doing??

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Re:How to start a company with no free time by xrd on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:05PM (#12990483)

The kid was sleeping on my chest. I call it the one handed editor for this reason: http://blog.teddyhyde.com/2013/04/03/teddy-hyde-the-no-compr...

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Re:How to start a company with no free time by devdad on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:34PM (#12990640)

I was home three days a week with our youngest while starting a consultancy, and I got pretty much all my coding done with him sleeping on my chest, me crouched over him in the couch typing away on my MBP :)

Clients had no idea how delicately I was hitting the keys when writing their code. Deadlines could be missed if he didn't sleep as expected.

As soon as he woke up it was back to being a full time dad. I like to believe that I'm way more productive now since I've become a father - being a parent that's also part of the workforce requires both discipline and creativity.

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Re:How to start a company with no free time by xrd on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:07PM (#12990499)

I'm still somewhat amazed I was able to do this but necessity is the mother of innovation. Perhaps a corollary is that mothers birth infants that really remind you of the necessity to code.

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Re:How to start a company with no free time by smustin on Friday November 18, 2016 @05:19PM (#12990554)

I didn't code while taking care of my kid. My kid has childcare during the day! People love to assume that women are all just staying home watching their kids all day...

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Re:How to start a company with no free time by CaveTech on Friday November 18, 2016 @06:39PM (#12990947)

Who are you even replying to? No one assumed anything about you and jump in anyways with a negative spin.

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Re:How to start a company with no free time by eloff on Friday November 18, 2016 @11:26PM (#12992069)

Most people probably assumed the posters are male. More programmer dads out there than programmer moms. You seem to be a little defensive?

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Re:How to start a company with no free time by roryisok on Tuesday November 22, 2016 @07:22AM (#13013548)

The only assumption I made is that childcare is not available at 3am

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