Follow up to Show HN: I’m a pregnant hacker. Here is my side project

Re:Follow up to Show HN: I’m a pregnant hacker. Here is my s... by natgordon on Monday November 08, 2021 @06:22PM (#29155652)

Great question. I really struggled with that decision. For me it was really whether to raise a seed round or not. I went back and forth about what kind of business I wanted to run.

I finally made the decision to raise the seed round and grow a team because I felt that I would learn the most. I optimized for my own learning and growth.

Are you facing a similar decision? It's a steep and long learning curve to actually lead a team, but now it's the part of my job that I love the most.

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Re:Follow up to Show HN: I’m a pregnant hacker. Here is my s... by eftychis on Monday November 08, 2021 @08:06PM (#29156444)

Thank you for that perspective and congratulations!

If I may ask a similar question: did you feel, once you signed up the first employee, that there was a point early on that staff growth was too slow or too fast?

Congratulations again!

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Re:Follow up to Show HN: I’m a pregnant hacker. Here is my s... by natgordon on Monday November 08, 2021 @10:53PM (#29157529)

Over the entire 10 years it's always felt like we have been too slow to hire and needed a person in a role 3-6 months earlier.

We were a team of 5 when we hired our first full-time customer service agent. Until that hire, we would each take a day of customer support which eventually meant that our iOS engineer was answering user emails for ~6 hours a week.

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Re:Follow up to Show HN: I’m a pregnant hacker. Here is my s... by eftychis on Tuesday November 09, 2021 @02:33PM (#29166322)

Thank you! (In my past IC/employee experience I had noticed the same.)

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