Startup Minutia
Haven't read much on Hacker News about the daily minutia of running a side business / startup at a "one man" shop.
But does this list of activities sound about right to you?
- Daily support emails
- Daily reports about your system's health (notification of exceptions, 404s, 500s, jobs reporting success, yeah!)
- Conceiving business strategies
- Studying your analytics and the 'field'
- Finding/talking with potential partners
- Responding to customers: Feature requests, kudos, managing community, bugs, help, moderation
- Developing features / Improving UI / Developing products
- System management: Database, Speed, Hardware
It's an interesting balance.