The one thing about working at a start-up is that you really have to be committed to working whenever possible. There isn’t really a clear cut schedule (aside from meetings) for when you need to finish your work. The only real deadlines are the days that the client needs to have their MVP or final product finished by. One of our clients needs their app to be finished by the end of this week which has added a layer of stress to the company to make sure that everything is perfect. As a result of this I find myself staying up late for the engineering meeting just in case the developers have any questions for the bugs I reported, and also waking up early to check and revise the tasks depending on their level of completeness.
Luckily I do have time during the day to rest, so it takes the edge off of the long and unorthodox work hours. Today we met with another current client who needs their product to be finished by the end of the summer. Their project is going to be in high demand as soon as the school year starts so they don’t want to miss out on this big part of their customer base. We went over their list of changes that they want to see done, and we talked with them about how they would take place and the amount of hours that we estimate it will take us to complete them.
Another piece of big news is that today we signed another company on. We are almost at our full capacity for projects and so there is another developer that is being hired to offload some of the extra work that needs to be done. It is pretty cool to be in a position where I am working at a company that is a start-up, and at the same time is also helping start-ups grow. As our clients grow and succeed we too grow and succeed which is really interesting to me.
Tomorrow will be a busy day and I will report back with the day.