Jaewon Seo

I used to waste an entire afternoon every single month jumping across multiple dashboards just to download billing statements. I finally wrote a background job to handle it all automatically. It s completely unglamorous and breaks the second a website updates its login button, but it gets the job done without human panic. Did you build any low-key scripts lately that saved you from a boring monthly routine?

When a free user complains, it's easy to ignore. But when a long time paid customer drop a harsh cancellation note or leaves a blunt review, it hits differently even if the overall churn rate is low.

Early on, every churned user feels like a personal failure of your product vision.

As you scale, do you naturally build a thick skin toward churn feedback, or do you just learn to separate product noise from signal?

Light one for the weekend, but I'm genuinely asking, because I'm bad at this and I know I'm not alone.

My rule is supposed to be: no code after Saturday noon. What actually happens is I "just check one thing" at 2 PM and surface at 7. The rule exists and I ignore it, which I suspect means it's the wrong rule.

I'm wondering whether the people who actually protect their weekends do it with a rule at all, or with something structural a separate machine, a co-founder who'd notice, a hard commitment that makes building impossible.

So: what's your rule, and be honest do you follow it, or is it aspirational like mine?