I got sick over xmas and spent 57ish hours building an app for my partner’s business.
She never asked for it, I mostly convinced her it would be a good idea as a lead generation tool.
So far I have built out
We’re pretty much ready for a BETA release of the app.
MVP v0.1
Below is how many hours it takes to watch some of the most popular series that I keep hearing about from friends and work colleagues.
Show | Hours to Watch |
---|---|
Grey’s Anatomy | 357 |
24 | 209 |
West Wing | 154 |
Big Bang Theory | 139 |
Friends | 121 |
Lost | 121 |
How I met your Mother | 104 |
The Office (US) | 99 |
Brooklyn Nine-Nine | 67 |
Breaking Bad | 62 |
It’s always confused me to listen to friends and family complain about lack of time.
The idea they’ve been talking about for 3 years but just don’t have time to start on, that book that never got written.
These are the same people that have finished all the most popular TV shows that I’ve never seen.
Both of those are half truths.
The real truth is I just aim to produce more than I consume.
I can only imagine that finishing a series gives people the same sense of closure that I feel when I’ve finished a project or shipped a web app.
I can look back at all the things I had to learn in order to get it done, all the calculations I had to make and problems I had to find solutions for.
That feeling of finishing a show with
maybe its similar to
“It’s done! With everything I now know, what can I build next?
I’ll never know