knandraina

Hello everyone,

I'm a Product guy, and I know to code. I've been working in the European tech scene for seven years. It's pretty exciting, but I want to set up my own company. First, as a side project, why not work full-time on it when it generates some revenue. I don't want to build a unicorn; I want to bootstrap my company and be independent.

I have some pain points I can solve for myself, but I don't believe they would generate revenue. Ideally, I would love to work on a specific niche with an intense pain point. But I have some difficulties finding those particular niches.

What's your process for starting a new business?

Hello HN! I joined a company a few months ago, and from mid-November to end of December I spent 20 days in meetings. I started to decline most of the meeting and then I noticed that my teammates were also involved in a lot of meeting. For the last 3 retrospective, my teammates complained to get too many meetings (between 15 to 25hours). We got a a lot of recurring meeting that are useless, but also a lot of meeting where 10-15 attend to it. I've tried to implement asynchronous communication to update team but it is pretty hard!

To give you more context, I'm a senior Product Growth Manager, I have an Engineer, a Growth Marketer in my team. I used to work in small company where we used async communication a lot. My question is How many meetings per week do you have? It would be great if you could:

* precise your role, I guess a VP Engineer would have more meetings than a Software Engineer!

* What kind of meeting do you have?

* Which one are productive/unproductive?

* How do you deal with unproductive meeting?

* How those solutions have helped you? How those solutions haven't helped you?

ps: I don't say I want to remove all meetings, but having 8 hours meeting per week would be great.