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I'm in the 2-person weeks-away-from-launch phase of a startup, and it can be fairly hectic. There are so many little things to do (make email templates, fix this bug, make that feature), that I use trello to keep track of a weekly plan. I split things up into a weekly to-do/doing/done and only keep on the board what I think I can accomplish throughout the week (and revisit it daily). It helps a lot with lining up tasks in the order I need to do them in.

The lifestyle part of it is that 7 days out of the week, I wake up whenever my body wakes up and pretty much roll over to the computer desk and start working. I'm married (with no children), and although it took her a bit to really buy in on giving me uninterrupted development time, I finally have that for most of the day. I pretty much do this until 9-10pm, and then my wife and I catch up on TV shows or watch a movie or two.

There are, of course, minor distractions throughout the day like reading HN, or playing a few iphone games. In order to combat that, I hold off on doing anything like that until I hit micro milestones on my current task.

As far as money goes, I left my full-time job in order to work on this idea, so there's absolutely no income until I start generating it from customers. I'm borrowing against my house to pay the bills, but that's how much I really believe in what I'm working on, and I've intentionally forced myself into this position because it makes me prioritize everything as if my life depended on it (which it does).