The Tired Engineer — a community for employed engineers building side projects after hours, with a job, a family, and bills. You are not coding in Bali, and that's okay.

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You are not coding in Bali: exhausted engineer dad asleep at a chaotic desk with family duties and work incidents around him.

YOU ARE NOT

MARC LOU portrait

MARC LOU

$70K MRR

AND THAT'S OKAY.

YOU ARE NOT

PIETER LEVELS portrait

PIETER LEVELS

$245K MRR

AND THAT'S OKAY.

YOU ARE NOT

PAULINE portrait

PAULINE

100k€+ ARR

AND THAT'S OKAY.

YOU ARE NOT

SERGIU CHIRIAC portrait

SERGIU CHIRIAC

$10K MRR

AND THAT'S OKAY.

YOU ARE NOT

TONY DINH portrait

TONY DINH

$150K MRR

AND THAT'S OKAY.

YOU ARE NOT

JUSTIN WELSH portrait

JUSTIN WELSH

$10M+ revenue

AND THAT'S OKAY.

YOU ARE NOT

ARVID KAHL portrait

ARVID KAHL

$55K MRR

AND THAT'S OKAY.

You're not surfing in Bali. You're shipping code at 11pm with a baby monitor on the desk. They code with açaí bowls. You code with a baby monitor.

You've got a job. A family. Bills. A mortgage that doesn't care about your dreams. And still after the dishes, after bedtime, after a full day you open the laptop. That's not a hobby. That's grit. That's us. Come find your people.