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by ycmike 4432 days ago
I'd like to hear the responses to this since I am in a similar position. I was accepted to a startup accelerator at UPenn and have been working full-time the past 8 weeks both learning to code and building the application. Before that, I was working part-time for about 2 months while holding a job.

Lately, I've been in a massive rut and have serious doubts seeing if I have what it takes to make my startup succeed. It is mostly due to the technical side since I'm just graduating a bootcamp but I feel my energy and drive waining.

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I also had to learn to code to get my startup off the ground; it took a while and was painful, no doubt about that. Eventually I realized that coding is a process that I could enjoy if I let myself. Same with all the other things I do day to day.

But 8 weeks? That's it? You have a long way to go. It took me about that long to get to where I was good enough to create a basic app on my own. Building a business on top of your coding abilities takes much longer, so try to focus on what you have accomplished. It will always (ALWAYS) take longer than you'd think to get where you'd want to be, so just repeat what everyone else in this thread has been saying: it's a marathon, not a sprint.