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How TF do you juggle and prioritise multiple projects when you have tons of ideas and not enough revenue yet?
...some of y'all be making it look so easy!
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I'm not in a position to give advice, but what I see pieter doing (for example) is just focusing on one at a time and using a launch as the delineator for when to switch to something else.
Surely in many ways the "launch" is just the beginning?
There's a need to fix bugs, add features, and market
yeah but I think the launch is when he first(?) takes a step back to evaluate whether to continue investing time into it or pause work on it.
Building something from scratch takes tons of time and energy. Maintainance is easy
I can't 😅 Want to see what others are doing.
Embrace the ✨feral chaos✨
No, just kidding, but only kind of. What I do is prioritize income first, however that looks like. I tend to pick up a lot more freelancing projects and get a burst of additional revenue, then stop pitching for new clients for a few weeks and maintain what my normal workload is so I can work on my fun projects (like game dev).
My rule is that I have to meet deadlines and not have overdue bills for me to be able to have fun time.
Makes a lot of sense. I have the tendency to gravitate towards what is currently fun/stimulating rather than being sober about the money making opportunities. I really need to work on this. Opportunity cost is real.
I don't think it's possible to effectively juggle more than 1-2 things at the same time, at least not for me.
I really only focus on one idea at a time and move onto the next idea when I've determined the first idea doesn't have any legs.
However, I wouldn't give up too early if you can help it (i.e. if your financial situation allows for it).
#watchdog for example did zero sales for the first couple months, then suddenly did 4 sales and $126 in revenue last month when I built the right integrations.
That's enough to keep me interested at this point. My standards will increase proportional to my experience as a founder increases, I'm still quite new to this having been an employee for my entire adult life up until now.
Nice! Are you doing this part-time around a 9-5 at this stage?
I do this full time. Living off savings and stock trading proceeds, mostly the latter to avoid draining my savings.
I am dividing them into different categories :
- Build stuff
- Promote Stuff
- Find Opportunities
I like this. Do you time block each? Or how does it work?
yes. 3 hours each. I use tracking time software.
Tried sunsama earlier.
Rn tracking time + Linear on one screen and all the work on other.
I bake the "tons of ideas" all into 1 thing, for example: scoredetect.com
Because it is chock full of features, there is no need to juggle another "big idea". Instead, I set a goal 1-year from now and build it. Based on customer feedback, I reiterate the product/s and make it work. By focusing on "1 big thing" you train yourself to avoid the "shiny object syndrome" and instead use that shiny object into your product. This is 1 tactic amongst the others in the comments here.
This is really cool. BTW I love your landing page
I consistently fail to follow this advice myself, but in a perfect world I'd like to work as follows: