Indie hacking, family trip mode

Indie hacking for the family, with the family

Pov building a startup as an indie dad, family trip mode:

5am in hotel room, wake, tiptoe to toilet in the dark, try not to trip, wash up, boot up laptop, shites the boot up sound (!), connect to hotel wifi, start hacking… as your wife and child sleeps nearby.

It’s bad for my neck and back.
It’s not ideal for productivity.
It’s not great for my eyes.
It’s tiring waking early.

But I don’t know why, this is the most satisfying form of indie hacking for me.

It’s the money I earn from indie hacking that we get to travel for fun, as a family, aka why we’re in hotel to start with.

I’m working so hard all because of my family, and the real life, living and breathing reasons are just sleeping a few feet away.

Being able get some deep work early in the morning, start in a calm and grounded way, and then put it all away for a crazy rest of the day out traveling, is a microcosm of the kind of lifestyle I want now. Work and family. That’s it.

Grateful for being able to do this 🙏🙏🙏

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