1. For a small start-up, this seems to be the norm. I'd be very surprised to find a company if that size with "normal" working hours, unless perhaps they're alr

1. For a small start-up, this seems to be the norm. I'd be very surprised to find a company if that size with "normal" working hours, unless perhaps they're already profitable and have a secure market lead. 2. You don't actually need a lot of progress when you only have a couple of devs. Process is a compensation mechanism to deal with the complexity of large teams and / or mature products. A really great product leader on a v1 product can effectively run things with nothing more than a burndown list. 3. Depending on where you are in your career, this may be normal. It generally takes newer devs a longer amount of time to get ramped up when starting something new.