Solo Developers Struggle to Protect Deep Work Time from Marketing Obligations
Solo developers report that alternating between coding and marketing tasks destroys focus and output quality. Time-boxing marketing to weekends is a workaround for the deeper problem of context-switching between incompatible work modes. There is no tooling that helps indie developers batch or automate marketing without interrupting development flow.
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