My side hustle is taking more time than my startup

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Tool

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Issue

Founder spending excessive time on meeting scheduling emails instead of commercial work for €380K ARR startup; AI agent built to automate meeting requests, calendar checks, and booking is now diverting attention from primary business.

Cost

unstated

Recommendation

Create landing page and minimal backend; gather waitlist before going all-in; balance time allocation between main startup and side project

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anthropic/claude-haiku-4.5 · 2026-05-08

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I’m a 30-year-old founder running a startup with 6 employees doing €380K ARR. I'm the commercial guy, which means my inbox is basically just this: > It drives me crazy! So last weekend, I built a little AI agent (of course, who hasn’t these days?) that: * Detects meeting requests in emails * Checks my calendar * Responds with a proposed time (or alternatives) * And auto-books the meeting when confirmed I casually shared it with some founders in my accelerator, and now strangers are DMing me asking to use it. I’m wondering if I should clean it up, make a landing page, and launch it properly? This is my 4th side hustle (the others make a bit of cash), but this one’s getting a lot more interest. Has anyone else been here? Would you go all-in, or just keep it light? Shall I look to convince a friend to join me to have more hands? Any advice is welcome!

Top comments (8)

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[score=41] JohnCasey3306

Never ceases to amaze how much room the market has for so many multiples of the same tool EDIT for grammar

[score=35] JerrBearrrrr

Yeah go all in on it, why wouldn’t you? It might take some time away for a short amount of time, but front end work to set up minimal back end work? Why not? It depends on the amount of time you have to give it while still Operating the startup.

[score=24] Soft_Entrepreneur443

OH COMMON JSUT SAY you want to sell this to us

[score=9] Rare-Wash6637

Follow the money. You can put up a landing page and a loom demo and gather a waitlist. if the waitlist grows to a good amount you can go all in on it

[score=6] [deleted]

Every new idea that takes you away from your successful one is just another risk. Can you invest the same time in your main business and earn more without the risk? Or is the new idea worth the risk? That’s the debate.

[score=11] [deleted]

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[score=8] findur20

Yes create a proper landing page with full info, that is your product so make everything right