Love Magic Patterns, happy user here
55 karma · joined March 2, 2018
The instant feedback-loop of iterating over components is great and perfect for me when I'm designing a feature that's heavy on the client side of things.
For example it took me half a day to go from idea -> design -> implementation
B2B side asked for an analytics dashboard, we manually sent them Retool apps segmented with their data hardcoding ids in the query.
My experience:
- It's hard, if your playing a video game it would be in `very hard` mode
- Talk to your wife beforehand, she was okay with the opportunity
- Had a LOT of savings
- Have a co-founder (highly recommend it)
- We've raised preseed money (co-founder handled all of that)
- I hired an ex-coworker that I worked with previously (that's why you raise money)
- I'm remote so I get to spend more time with my baby (if I'm not productive during that day I try to code long nights and usually feed the baby during the night so my wife rests)
Overall it's been super hard but gratifying :)
PS: I also try to exercise for an hour a day to keep me sane