> It is hard to put the 3 hours of coding into perspective when you don't indicate how much effort is being put into design and specification of the system. In

> It is hard to put the 3 hours of coding into perspective when you don't indicate how much effort is being put into design and specification of the system. In my experience successfully deployed systems are bout 25% coding, the rest of the effort is in gathering and documenting requirements, designing the system from various perspectives and specifying the modules, etc. Of course, in many cases people conflate all those activities as being "coding". Yes, I am conflating all of that into coding. We are an early stage startup, so I still feel I need to be everywhere even if it doesn't make too much sense. Going to hire more in the coming months to try to lower my own work load. But, I suspect it will be just keep increasing. ;)