[lawrenceg]

I've been running a studio-style business for about 10 years in Toronto. Funding it from services and working on product on the side is absolutely brutal, as I'm sure many of you already know.

It doesn't really allow you to fully concentrate on your product and put the 110% effort required into quickly iterating on product/market fit.

Eventually what most of the time ends up happening is dropping the ball on the client work and failing to launch a successful product.

I'm now a bit more pragmatic about this whole thing and I'm helping clients deliver on their vision of a product by providing solid dev work and tips/consulting from my start-up experience.