I’ve been working on my “startup” (codeapprove.com) in addition to my full time job and busy social life for about 18 months now (no kids though, before anyone

I’ve been working on my “startup” (codeapprove.com) in addition to my full time job and busy social life for about 18 months now (no kids though, before anyone asks). Finding time to build the thing hasn’t been all that hard. A few hours a week is actually a lot if you’ve already pre-solved some problems in your mind during downtime and you’re really just cranking out work with few blockers. The hard part is customers. Acquiring them and keeping them can’t really be scheduled. This requires random bursts of time and energy when you least expect it that can be pretty incompatible with a normal job. Maybe if you’re really good at marketing and UX you can find ways to passively get self-service customers but most people who can build software lack those skills. And still, someone has to do customer support. So I ended up with the classic hacker’s folly: a great product with few users. Oh well, I love building it.