Seven tough lessons from ten years in bootstrapped business

Re:Seven tough lessons from ten years in bootstrapped business by ryanwaggoner on Monday December 03, 2018 @01:17PM (#18591290)

Few of my projects have ever had any tests. And none of the even remotely successful ones have. Luxury I just can't afford.

The work I do for clients is always much higher quality from a purely technical perspective, but when you're solo and working on side projects, you optimize for a completely different set of variables (or fail).

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Re:Seven tough lessons from ten years in bootstrapped business by abalashov on Monday December 03, 2018 @01:27PM (#18591416)

Interesting. For me it's the opposite. I'm not saying I do sloppy work for clients, but the gold-plating really happens on the product side. For consulting projects the decisions are usually more pragmatic and get-it-done oriented.

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Re:Seven tough lessons from ten years in bootstrapped business by ryanwaggoner on Tuesday December 04, 2018 @04:34AM (#18597857)

I used to be more like this. To a fault.

Being a perfectionist and having no accountability and unbounded time to tinker on a side project and not release it or charge for it or market it is a recipe for disaster in my case. So now I try to do the shittiest first version that I can live with, and then revise as I go. It’s painful and stressful, but the money the projects make really helps :)

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