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by hardwaregeek
1401 days ago
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I have a lot of respect for Jarred and bun. The lean approach of just one person working for a year is rather underrated imo. No funding and therefore no pressure for growth. No overhead from scaling up a team and having to implement process, standards, etc. And at the same time, incredible content marketing by just tweeting about every little detail. Me and many others got hooked just because Jarred was posting interesting stuff and kept posting interesting stuff. It wasn't a stuffy blog or padded out conference talks, it was just good, technical content. My only hope is that Jarred gets some rest for a bit. According to his Twitter he's been pulling 80 hour weeks and while that does lead to impressive work, it's not great from a human perspective. Hope he can rest up and keep this going for the long haul! |
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The time it worked, I worked 10-4pm (heads down) in the ideation phase, ate well, slept well, got two hours of exercise daily, and had an interesting social life. Once the startup took on a life of its own, the personal life started to suffer and I got up to 80+hrs for a month or two before settling into ~60.
The two times it didn't work, I embraced the 60hr/week grind and was a bit more isolated, perhaps drank a bit more to unwind, and my focus deeply suffered.
I really love the solo thing, but in the early days, be creative and happy. The grind will find you. Market fit means more work. No doubt Jarred will find building a company and Bun at the same time even more challenging that just building Bun.