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Totally. These days what I do is I allocate time for features/product and just go hard on it for Standups [1]. I do say 1-2 weeks building product as if it were a hackathon. When I am done, I go back to marketing & sales, in the manager's schedule.

So in short, I do things on consecutive days:

* to code, I do maker's schedule.

* to sell/talk to users, I do manager's schedule.

I'm feeling like writing on the topic as well, as it can be valuable for other solo founders too. I struggled a lot in the beginning when building Standups.

[1] https://standups.io



Why do you do both? Why not stick with the one you enjoy the most?


Because to do creative (product: code/design) work I have to really get uninterrupted streaks of work.

But to do sales, talking to users, I have to do it on the manager's schedule, with the typical slots within a day calendar schedule.


No. You misunderstand. Why do you want to do both creative work and sales?




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