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Sunday Reset: 5 Lessons From a Week of Shipping Two SaaS Products

DEV Community·speed engineer·6 months ago
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Why I Started Doing Sunday Resets

Every Sunday I sit down with a coffee and ask two questions:

What did I actually ship this week?

What slowed me down — and how do I avoid it next week?

Running two products at once (FillTheTimesheet and PromptShip), I learned the hard way that without a weekly reset, the urgent quietly eats the important. Here are 5 lessons from this week.

1. Time data beats time estimates

I caught myself estimating "this'll take an hour" three times this week for tasks that took four. Tracking actual time on each task — not at the end of the day, but the moment I switched contexts — closed the gap fast. My estimates got 60% more accurate inside two weeks.

The takeaway isn't "track every minute." It's: start tracking the moment your gut estimate feels wrong.

2. Your team's best AI prompt is in someone's Slack DMs

This week I helped a marketing team audit their AI workflows. They had ~40 prompts they used regularly. Twenty of them lived in one person's Notion.…

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