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by jcrash 982 days ago
Hi, I'm in a similar position as you. 9 to 5, working on my MVP after hours.

Basically, working on this has replaced all of my TV and movie watching, and some hobbies. I'm able to do about 5hrs during the week and about 10hrs during the weekends doing it this way.

I keep a spreadsheet logging all of the time I'm putting in, and just trying to stay focused - 'fake work' was really easy to fall into in the beginning but I've been much better about that recently.

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Love the idea of logging time spent. I do the same. Care to elaborate on what you mean by 'fake work'?
Fake work is working on things that seem cool or useful, but don't actually contribute to success.

Examples:

0) On my company's mobile site, the navigation header wasn't centered. I almost spent time fixing it until I realized it literally didn't matter

1) I'm using some open source code in my MVP, I almost went through and cleaned up the code - but it worked without doing so, so why would I take the time to?