Ask HN: Are you working 996 hours?

No.

But my agents are.

You couldn't pay me enough to sacrifice so much of my life for someone else's business.

No. I can understand doing so if it's your own company and you have a significant % of the business. But if you are an employee it does not make sense, you will not gain the time back

what is this 'work' you speak of?

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I did that and more when I was trying to get my startup off the ground, but never since and never again.

I'm not getting paid by the hour, so hell no.

If I was paid hourly, hell no.

Yes, I do 996 hours per year. That is exactly 83 hours per month, and as a prime, management can’t divide it any further.

996 hours a year? Sure.

I wasn't put on Earth to create shareholder value. Work is the means to an end. The less of it I have to do, the better.

As an employee hell no. I've done a couple of crunches, but efficiency tanks. Plan better, be more agile, solve the immediate issues rather than getting fancy, so much one can do instead.

No, but if I got paid overtime I'd absolutely do it (or something more reasonable like 50-60 hrs/week)

• 996 schedule

• Ads all over SF that just have our logo with no context

• Hacker house in Pac Heights

• Shared space in Hayes (for calls)

• Tech stack is Next.js/React/OPENAI_API_KEY

• Product is AI SOC-2 verification

• The company will fail, I'll pivot into real estate

I work as QA during the day, but at night I become a B̶a̶t̶m̶a̶n̶ solo founder. I started to work like this at the end of April and have had almost no days off. With the day job, it is around 12-14 hours per day till now. It's not 996 hours per year, and nobody forced me, but the internal willingness to finish the main development asap. Yeah, that was quite intensive, but I already accomplished most of the task, and now I am gonna slow the pace.