Show Notes
Summary:
On this episode of saaslife.fm, Sam Schrup and Chris McAleenan talk about what it looks like for a bootstrapper to take paternity leave for a new baby or puppy sitting. Never a dull moment at home or work!
Highlights from this Episode:
- Demo Downtime: People were patient and willing to wait for Sam’s return.
- Work/Life Balance: First week back finds work just as exhausting as life at home.
- Stack Overflow Question: Chris likes to code, but hasn’t kept up his skill set.
- Mission Critical Dependency: What if something goes wrong while you’re gone?
- Edge Cases: Fixing issues takes time and holds you back from building features.
- Mental Shift: Actively cultivate mindset via previous experience, project patterns.
- Deliverable Size: Downloading large file on Google Drive isn’t a good experience.
- TextRetailer Website: Revamped and launched to drive customer engagement.
- Developer Resource: Sam’s hire made a widget to grow email and SMS lists.
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Intro music by Monkey Warhol licensed under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0).