Everyone shares their MRR milestones. Nobody shares their TIME BUDGET. As a solo founder time is the only resource I have.
Here is where every hour goes in my week:
The Breakdown (50 Hours Total): - Product/Code (20 hrs): I spend 4 hours every morning in deep work. No meetings, no slack. I use Linear to keep my roadmap strict so I don't build random features. - Sales Calls (8 hrs): I take calls in the afternoons. I use Calendly to stack them back-to-back. - Customer Support (6 hrs): I use TextExpander snippets for common questions to keep this low. - Content Creation (3 hrs): This used to take me 10+ hours.
The Fix: I stopped typing blog posts. Now I dictate them during my commute using Willow Voice. I can churn out a 1,000-word article in 20 minutes of talking.
The ""Unlock"": The biggest change for me was compressing content creation from 10 hours down to 3. That freed up 7 hours a week to do more sales calls which is directly responsible for the growth from $7k to $12k MRR.
Where does the majority of your time go as a solo founder?