croqueton

I am sure I am not alone in this when I say that I have too many ideas for projects and not enough time. The pile of unfinished side projects continues to fester in my Documents folder as if to shame me, daily.

Has anyone considered paying a cheap-ish freelancer to just knock out some of the prototypes you have in mind and then picking it up from there?

I know that with side projects half the fun is doing it yourself, but it's also nice to actually realize your ideas and see them come to life. A small prototype can quickly validate your idea. Sometimes the hardest part about starting is setting up all the dependencies.

Has anyone done this? What did you learn?

Hi HN.

I work for a small business (5-10 people). We like to think of ourselves as a software company, but for all intents and purposes we operate like a consultancy. We're mostly devs, no *real* sales, marketing or BD people on the team.

Each year we try to get more projects signed off with more clients, hoping one may stick and turn into a SaaS type offering. But so far that's only worked once.

FWIW, we primarily deal with computer vision (object detection, segmentation, etc) in a fairly niche sector, where all our potential clients are behemoth corps that move slowly and are not used to a change of process within the corp.

For the time being I've given up on the dream of becoming a SaaS with a single core product. So, how do I focus our efforts on scaling up this consultancy?

I'm a programmer, like many of you. I'm 31 years old, working as team lead where I luckily still get to do lots of coding.

On days where I do well at my job I feel good, optimistic and motivated in my life, including non-work related activities.

Unfortunately the same is true when I don't have a productive day. It makes me feel depressed, worthless, unable to plan ahead and unable to look at the positives in life.

How do I learn to separate the two? I think I have a good work-life balance, but work seems to disproportionately affect my mood. On a day where I can't solve a bug or my progress is slowed down due to some distraction, I feel like shit and I can't seem to shake it off.