Solo devs: I've been tracking which hours of the day I actually ship vs which I just "work"
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After 3 months of solo building on evenings/weekends, I noticed my 7–9pm block is where ~80% of shipped code lives. Everything else — mornings, lunch breaks, weekend afternoons — turns into planning, browsing, or half-baked drafts that get thrown out.
Two things I had to change to protect that window: killing all notifications until 9pm, and doing planning the night before so I don't waste the shipping hours on "what should I build today."
Anyone else tracked this? What's your actual shipping window, and what did you have to move around to protect it?
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