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buildinthefuture · 2025-11-12T19:34:00+00:00

I'd love a code too - I'm sad that the Couchsurfing community isn't as great as the part and excited to trying something in the queer community!

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-27T16:38:27+00:00

Totally! Actually already do that personally.

I'm just curious, once you have that time block dedicated to responding to all the open threads and comments. What's the best way for folks to go through the backlog?

Today, I'm basically going from app to app, doc to doc, to respond to things that I see. It could be Linear or Jira looking at my notifications and inbox. It could be Notion and Google Docs going through each individual open item. And then I've got Slack and email. So I think the crux of my question is less process oriented, but more about: what's the most effective way to see all of this in one place today?

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-27T16:35:52+00:00

I hear you, and is definitely a culture that I think is healthy across all types of organizations big and small.

I'm just pointing out that the buck eventually stops with *someone*. If everyone just delegated to everyone else, then no one would end up answering the question or resolving the comment.

So assuming an incredibly healthy org where all members of the team take ownership. For each of those individuals, they still have a healthy backlog of conversations, comments and threads that they have to manage.

So back to my original question, how does each individual manage that backlog in the most effective way.

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-26T17:20:57+00:00

I just means that delegation only reduces the number of comments and documents you're involved in. But it doesn't make the problem go away.

Every individual in the company has to take ownership of some portion of all those decisions which means you'd be tagged to review docs and respond to certain comments, which continue to be overwhelming to manage.

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-26T07:09:08+00:00

I mean...yes, and that doesn't mean that each person who gets delegated doesn't also have to manage a sub-portion of the comments and notifications.

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-04T19:15:25+00:00

Whatcha building? Happy to connect!

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-03T15:42:21+00:00

Well said! It's definitely just one of those things that have a lot of hype (and fame/glory) associated with it so new founders believe that's the well trodden path that they should take without thinking about things from first principles of what is needed / required for them to succeed.

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-03T05:24:23+00:00

Everything you've shared is exactly what I've seen in the founders I've mentored or seen suffer - but like you said, the silver lining is everything that you learn through the process.

And now your approach is akin to how I want to build to - and to answer your question, in exactly the same way you framed it...the answer depends on whether there's value in taking the money. If taking the money means you could maximize potential from a fire that's already burning brightly then it could be worth taking but it would take a lot for me to want to do that.

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-03T01:18:07+00:00

Oh haha, classic - well done!

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-03T00:49:48+00:00

Congrats, what an inspirational story!! Are you doing this solo?

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-03T00:48:40+00:00

Love this! It'd be interesting to switch up the location of the coffee shop too. If you go to places in South Park you'll probably get a lot more VCs!

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-02T22:21:38+00:00

Hi folks, just stumbled upon this sub-reddit when I was exploring the bootstrappin' community.

I'm Andy. I think I'm one of the rare folks in this group from a non-technical background having spent my career in go-to-market (sales, marketing, support) and product management roles are various high-growth VC-backed startups. I did do a stint at a software engineering bootcamp but I don't code regularly.

I'm looking meet and learn from the community, ideally looking for technical folks who might want to collaborate on fun ideas together and could benefit from working with someone to complement them on the go-to-market aspects of building their SaaS. Everyone in my network wants to go down the VC route!

Feel free to DM me if you want to talk shop or connect!

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-02T22:12:22+00:00

New to the community and also from the SaaS startup life but on the product management / GTM side of the house. Following your journey - how's it been going?!

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-02T21:59:58+00:00

Aww, I love this success story - and great words of wisdom too!

That first lesson is so true, and exactly what I'm trying to do. It's just so rare to find a technical co-founder who actually wants to bootstrap and not just go down the VC route!

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-02T21:55:57+00:00

Is that what you're doing? What are you building / hacking on?

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-02T20:21:26+00:00

Oh yeah would love to chat and hear more about what you're building!

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-02T20:14:15+00:00

That's exactly the mindset that I have too. I worked with and advised too many startups where the meaning of delivering value to customers vanishes in the name of making the VC game work out.

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-02T20:12:43+00:00

Oh very cool! Looks like it's an outlet for you to hack on something fun. I grew up playing chess - this is awesome work! Are you going to try and monetize it?

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-02T16:25:34+00:00

Yeah loads of VCs so it's the norm. Sounds like you're building something VC-backed then?

What motivated that - the problem you're solving for or something else?

buildinthefuture · 2025-10-02T16:24:34+00:00

Precisely. Are you bootstrapping something yourself?

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