Ask HN: What was it like to quit your job and focus on your successful startup?
> What was it like to quit your job and focus on your successful startup?<p>1. Time became my most valuable asset. Everything was filtered through the lens of "does this save me time?" and so I optimized everything: The gym (worked out at home), shopping (got delivered), dating (used fleshl...joking! :).<p>In the words of Joel Spolsky, "Every day that we spent not improving our products was a wasted day".<p>2. I worked harder than ever before. My job was tough but output ebbed and flowed with meetings, management, plus the usual office time wasters. The startup workday is more straightforward: wake up, coffee, write code, listen to users, coffee, learn how to add value to the market, coffee.<p>3. Every two months or so I look back and shake my head at how lame the product was, how little I knew, and how inefficient my workflow was. Which is to say, I continue to learn at an incredible clip yet realize I still don't know a thing. I expect this trend to continue - if it doesn't, I'm not growing.<p>So, yeah, overall it's been An Incredible Journey™. My only regret is that I didn't start sooner.<p>It's actually a gift how easy it is to go from idea to product to business. To paraphrase Murakami, 'If you're young and talented (or can code), it's like you have wings'.<p>We're living in the best of times.