[branksy]

This is a great post, and it's a good illustration of the difference between fun hacking/project buildling, and actually creating a business around software.

The ugly fact is, when you're creating a startup, only about 5% of your time is spent on the fun coding stuff, the main implementation of your whole idea.

The other 95% is spent on "plumbing" -- refactoring, credit-card integration, e-mail newsletters, browser bugs, server administration, and so on. And that's even before you get to things like hiring, fund-raising, and such.