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📆 Do founders get weekends, or is that a myth?

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We always think we'll take Saturday off...

Then we remember:

• users don't stop using the product
• ideas don't stop coming
• launches don't wait
• neither do bugs

Curious how everyone else handles it.

Do you protect your weekends, or have you accepted that working on weekends are just part of being a maker?

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Weekends are a rumour I've heard about but never verified 😄

Honestly though, we're mid-launch right now, so this weekend's "day off" is me refreshing comments and replying to people. But I've made peace with it, when you actually care about the thing you're building, the line between work and not-work just dissolves. It stops feeling like sacrifice and starts feeling like the interesting part.

The trick I'm still learning: protecting energy, not time. A full Saturday of building on good sleep beats a "day off" spent quietly anxious about the product. Great thread,

 "Protecting energy, not time" - great direction!
I think this thread could give us many valuable quotes from founders =)
Is your launch already scheduled?

I don't take weekends off, but I also don't work 9 to 5 during the week. I only work during my most productive hours and spend the rest of my time doing things that make those hours even MORE productive (exercising, learning, playing).

 one of the best approaches. And what are you playing?

 With my dog, mostly haha

Golf is good too, or a video game (Baldur's Gate 3 or Arc Raiders lately)

I don't know much about video games, but spending time with my dogs is definitely the most important and pleasant part of the day))

The energy they give us definitely transforms into productivity !

Rabnoor's single-point-of-failure framing further down this thread is the correct one and it's uncomfortable how much of my own weekend stress maps to that instead of hours worked. I can work a full Saturday and feel completely fine. Twenty minutes of something silently failing at 2am on a Sunday, with nobody but me able to look at it, wrecks the whole day even if I never touch a keyboard. Still the single point for the systems holding user money, which is exactly the part I'd least want a quiet bug in.

 I completely understand your concerns! Responsibility always weighs on you much more than just the amount of work itself.
What industry is your product in?

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