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My plan was to stop being a bitch and run the show myself. Only ... it's waaaay more stressful than being an employee ever was. So, there's that.
by JabavuAdams 11y ago
My plan was to stop being a bitch and run the show myself. Only ... it's waaaay more stressful than being an employee ever was. So, there's that.
- mineshaftgap 11y agoWait, I thought the owners spent most of their time twirling moustaches and counting their money.
- derefr 11y agoIs there anything you could do to get yourself some extra peace of mind? When writing software, I almost always reach first for Erlang these days—not because it's the most performant platform, but because it allows for an architecture where individual Erlang processes (tasklets/green threads) can crash and be restarted producing only events in a log that I can debug at my leisure, rather than waking me up at 3AM to fight a fire. If I were a CEO (and I have been, but only as a single founder, so I've never felt that "others depend on me to not go hungry" feeling), I'd be looking for similar wins in that dimension: fault-tolerant strategies allowing me to know that nobody's going to go hungry because of one mistaken assumption, so that I can sleep at night. If I was doing consulting, I'd try to productize it; if I had a product, I'd try to sell it to enterprises; if I had enterprise customers, I'd try to get them on a yearly pre-payment schedule; if I was in one vertical, I'd try to "clone" my product for other verticals with their own brands and marketing; etc. Are you looking for these? Or are you prioritizing growth: trying to, effectively, sprint for three years, rather than figuring out how to run a marathon?
- jacquesm 11y agoI'd very much like to know more about your setup, which libraries you've picked and what your server arrangement looks like. Any chance I could learn more about what you've done?