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My sixth year as a bootstrapped founder

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1071 points mtlynch | 2 comments | 16 Feb 24 15:07 UTC | HN request time: 0.542s | source
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mtlynch ◴[16 Feb 24 15:07 UTC] No.39398013[source]▶
Author here. As always, I'm happy to take any feedback or answer any questions about this post.
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1. philipwhiuk ◴[16 Feb 24 23:17 UTC] No.39404337[source]▶
How detailed is your time tracking in terms of what you actually did (not the mythical calendar/plan/TODO list)? You're not going to get down to 20 hours a week without identifying the chunks of time you're doing and essentially outsourcing it to someone on the Tiny Pilot team (or removing yourself from meetings).
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2. mtlynch ◴[17 Feb 24 02:49 UTC] No.39405859[source]▶
I think detailed tracking can be helpful, but I don't think it's necessary. I reduced time I spent on TinyPilot in 2022 even though I don't have rigorous time tracking to prove it.

Do you have recommendations for granular time tracking? I don't know of any tool that seems like it would do what I want. I know there are tools that track your active window, and I'm not crazy about the privacy aspect of those, and I don't think window titles map perfectly to activities. And then I could manually log every hour of my day, but I feel like the time I'd spend bookkeeping aren't worth the insights I'd get from it.