It's just too much
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This week on the program, Justin and Jon talk about:

• A friend, whose SaaS has grown 300% since the beginning of the quarantine. They just hit $6k in MRR.

• At that stage, he's in the "almost but not yet."

• You're either:

• Brainstorming how to make money faster

• Brainstorming how to work less

• Different stages:

• Pre-launch stage: you're working on your product on the side. It's fun! There's nothing stealing your time and attention because you don't have customers yet.

• The beta stage: still pretty fun! You have a few customers who are using your product, and maybe paying you money.

• The "launched" stage: now, you have way more users. Now you're doing way more customer support, responding to feature requests.

• How much did we work when we were building Transistor?

• Jon figures we spent 45 to 60 hours a week (each).

• Jason Calacanis’ tweet): "It takes 100 hours per week to build a business!"

• “Good businesses have margin.")

• Josh Wood: "At Honeybadger, we work 30 hours per week)."

• Margin gives you the opportunity, as a founder, to live beyond your keyboard. To engage with the world.

• Sandy Hudson (Sandra & Nora podcast)): "The quarantine gave people the time and space to wrestle with the current moment."

• The Dept of Veteran Affairs)

• "As your little baby Rails app grows up, you can't just run everything on the same service."

• "The whole internet is just patchwork of pipes and duct tape."

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★ Bootstrapper shout-out of the week:

• LessAccounting
• https://www.lessaccounting.com/)
• Cloud base accounting software and services for non-accountants. This used to be owned by Allan Branch (Paul Kogan owns it now). It’s specifically designed for small businesses with 1-25 employees and contractors

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