| My co-founder and I, have been spending 4/5 days a week on our startup, and 1(-2 days max) a week on paid-for programming work. It is really hard to find that sort of part-time paying work, especially on a long term retainer. (If anyone thinks it is easy to find such - please share!) We've done it this way, because this allows us to self-fund, and carry on much longer with our idea which we always new is one that would take a longer time than most other startups to gain a breakthrough. We are building stuff that would allow non-technical business users to draw their own systems into existance without programming. This is a hard problem, not something to attack with the typical MVP mindset, at least not at the outset. We also want the maximum time to pivot to different ways of marketing it, and applying it in different ways to try to get it to a solid financial outcome. Being pressured to make money of a startup can with some technologies, lead you to make short term smart decisions that are limiting you in the longer term. For those interested in what we are building: https://taskputty.com For now, we just have a CRM product, but you can alter any aspect of the system by changing process diagrams and using drag and drop editors. |