What are your pain points?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9521958

by adrianbg • 11 years ago

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I'd like to start a business. What pain-points do you feel in your business or personal life?

pigmentia2• 11 years ago

Information overload.

adrianbg• 11 years ago

Could you elaborate? Too many Tweets, Facebook posts and news articles to sift through?

pigmentia2• 11 years ago

Maybe it's me. I have an accumulation issue where I bookmark articles and never get to reading them. New, exciting pursuits happen too quickly to effectively address all the things I'd like to.

tmaly• 11 years ago

I farmed out some tasks out to people on fiverr, but I find that writing sufficient specifications takes almost as long as doing the task itself. It would be nice to have a better workflow system to minimize time spent doing each step or at the junction of a context switch in the process.

mod• 11 years ago

I have a poor sleep schedule I've been trying hard to fix, to no avail.

I procrastinate to the extreme of often doing nothing for an entire work day (I'm a contractor and I just don't bill it!)--but because I won't let myself do the things I truly want, I end up on HN or similar for a large part of my day and accomplish nothing at work and much less than I could in other endeavors.

I'm interested in learning how to repair engines but it's hard to find approachable material online when I have a problem. Typically you end up reading tons of forums and deciphering lingo. (I know very little in the first place)

I have too many half-built projects.

My posture is suffering from sitting in a chair all day. That chair is a recliner (I work at home). I think I'm also experiencing poor circulation in my legs, perhaps from the recliner or the laptop sitting on my legs (it's a large, ~8lb laptop). I want to get back to the gym but my aforementioned terrible sleep schedule really gets in the way of that--just an excuse, perhaps.

Cricket just switched their cellular service to GSM from CDMA after AT&T bought them. Now I have a $600 brick, as none of the other CDMA services will take cricket phones for reasons they won't disclose to me.

I can't find enough time for all of my hobbies.

A business started with family members has caused strain and conflict, and the issues are going largely unresolved, with one person seemingly reaping the entirety of the benefit.

I could go on, if I thought harder!

What are your pain points?

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