How to balance full-time work with creative projects

Re:How to balance full-time work with creative projects by ashelmire on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @05:32PM (#18547477)

At around 80%, you realize you'll never finish because there are always more features. This is the state of real businesses as well. No sustainable business is every truly finished.

You just have to hit minimum viable product and launch. Then you're adding features (or fixing bugs, doing maintenance) to that product.

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Re:How to balance full-time work with creative projects by winrid on Tuesday November 27, 2018 @09:45PM (#18548864)

This. Set quantifiable goals and when reached move on until you can't live without more changes.

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Re:How to balance full-time work with creative projects by mrhappyunhappy on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @12:33AM (#18549509)

Agree, this is where I am now. There are a ton of features planned but I can’t afford to develop them without first getting some customers to justify spending.

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Re:How to balance full-time work with creative projects by n0tme on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @09:08AM (#18551511)

How do you know that it's 80% though, if there's no final state?

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Re:How to balance full-time work with creative projects by ashelmire on Wednesday November 28, 2018 @03:43PM (#18555478)

The point is that the imaginary % towards completion doesn't matter. You either have a viable product or you don't.

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