<story><title>The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)</title><url>https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcroll</author><text>I ran a small company like this quite successfully earlier in my career. If you think this is awesome what goes unmentioned is how lonely it can get. Also, any issues you have (business or technology) you bear the brunt of alone. A coworking space doesn&amp;#x27;t really help either imo, if you like working with others you will miss having coworkers. Just something I think worth mentioning if you think this is something you might want to pursue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>spiderfarmer</author><text>This feels like bragging but I also run a one man company and the loneliness is what I enjoy most. Granted, I only work from 08:45 to 14:30 and some hours in the evening, because I bring my kids to school and I pick them up in the afternoon, but the hours when I’m alone, I am 100% productive. When the kids are at home I mostly do some kind of manual labor to get some sort of exercise. Right now I’m building a shed. Last year I built my home office&amp;#x2F;guest house.&lt;p&gt;To make up for the missing social interaction I play football with friends, do some consultancy jobs on the side and I help where I can with my son’s football club.&lt;p&gt;This really is my dream job and I enjoy it thoroughly. I have no problems staying motivated and every day I have loads of inspiration.&lt;p&gt;The moment I lose motivation will be a sign for me to sell everything and start something new. I ran an online marketing company before this and that was really exhausting for an introvert like me. Selling that company was the best decision I ever made, apart from marrying my wife.</text></comment>
<story><title>The boring technology behind a one-person Internet company (2018)</title><url>https://broadcast.listennotes.com/the-boring-technology-behind-listen-notes-56697c2e347b</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>jcroll</author><text>I ran a small company like this quite successfully earlier in my career. If you think this is awesome what goes unmentioned is how lonely it can get. Also, any issues you have (business or technology) you bear the brunt of alone. A coworking space doesn&amp;#x27;t really help either imo, if you like working with others you will miss having coworkers. Just something I think worth mentioning if you think this is something you might want to pursue.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>wenbin</author><text>(author of this blog post here)&lt;p&gt;The hardest part of building this business is to keep motivated for a relatively long period of time. I&amp;#x27;m still early in this startup journey. This is only the 2nd year of me working full-time on Listen Notes.&lt;p&gt;I think it would be helpful to surround yourself with like-minded people (online or offline) -- we are social animals. Indie Hackers is pretty good: &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&amp;#x2F;&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;www.indiehackers.com&amp;#x2F;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;I live in San Francisco and I used to work for companies, so at least I can often hang out with some friends&amp;#x2F;former coworkers who are doing startups or working in tiny startups.&lt;p&gt;In my coworker space, people from different companies rarely talk to each other...</text></comment>