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Yeah, that's the experience of working on a hardware startup. The amount of anxiety is unreal. Great writeup, with a rawness that most people don't get in these

by ajiang 8y ago

Yeah, that's the experience of working on a hardware startup. The amount of anxiety is unreal. Great writeup, with a rawness that most people don't get in these retrospective pieces.

vonseel 8y ago
Does shipping 20 packages a weekend sound kind of low for a pre-manufactured product?
- TaylorAlexander 8y ago
  It's low. Remember that at this point, I was well past burn-out. I'd burnt out two years earlier and was still going. I worked a full time day job and had been doing this all by myself for years. I was tired of working on it, and sure as hell wasn't going to work 7 days a week for the Nth year. That meant I spent part of the weekend trying to live my life. It was a miserable balance and my productivity was super low. Nothing like what it would be if this was my day job.
  - avinium 8y ago
    Great article and appreciate the transparency/honesty. FYI the link in your profile (www.reboot.love) isn't working - outdated?
    - TaylorAlexander 8y ago
      Thank you for the kind words and for the tip! I forgot about that, but you reminded me that my server is not configured properly and the links should say http://reboot.love http://reboot.love I’ve updated my profile and I’ll have to fix my server!
  - vonseel 8y ago
    Fair enough, I've been there before. Good to hear you got out of the "funk".
- ryanmercer 8y ago
  It certainly sounds horribly inefficient. With my business I shut down a few years ago I shipped about 1600 shipments in 16 months while working a full time job with a lot of OT and still training 3 days a week with plenty of time to sit around watching tv on Sundays while also doing my own SEO, answering customer emails, looking for other product options, constantly monitoring competitors, manually cleaning 500+ pounds of LEGO pieces as part of an exploration at moving to another business etc. (Never buy 500+ pounds of used LEGO pieces, ever, just trust me)

by ajiang 8y ago

Yeah, that's the experience of working on a hardware startup. The amount of anxiety is unreal. Great writeup, with a rawness that most people don't get in these retrospective pieces.

vonseel 8y ago

Does shipping 20 packages a weekend sound kind of low for a pre-manufactured product?

TaylorAlexander 8y ago
It's low. Remember that at this point, I was well past burn-out. I'd burnt out two years earlier and was still going. I worked a full time day job and had been doing this all by myself for years. I was tired of working on it, and sure as hell wasn't going to work 7 days a week for the Nth year. That meant I spent part of the weekend trying to live my life. It was a miserable balance and my productivity was super low. Nothing like what it would be if this was my day job.
- avinium 8y ago
  Great article and appreciate the transparency/honesty. FYI the link in your profile (www.reboot.love) isn't working - outdated?
  - TaylorAlexander 8y ago
    Thank you for the kind words and for the tip! I forgot about that, but you reminded me that my server is not configured properly and the links should say http://reboot.love http://reboot.love I’ve updated my profile and I’ll have to fix my server!
- vonseel 8y ago
  Fair enough, I've been there before. Good to hear you got out of the "funk".
ryanmercer 8y ago
It certainly sounds horribly inefficient. With my business I shut down a few years ago I shipped about 1600 shipments in 16 months while working a full time job with a lot of OT and still training 3 days a week with plenty of time to sit around watching tv on Sundays while also doing my own SEO, answering customer emails, looking for other product options, constantly monitoring competitors, manually cleaning 500+ pounds of LEGO pieces as part of an exploration at moving to another business etc. (Never buy 500+ pounds of used LEGO pieces, ever, just trust me)