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 title: "A Day in the Life of a Software Engineer Building a Startup"
 description: This is the real day in the life of a software engineer at a startup.
 author: Asiqur Rahman
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 dateCreated: 2025-02-12
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 Some of those items included the dedicated [Worlds](https://www.codedex.io/worlds) page, new Notification system, revamped [Community](https://www.codedex.io/community), and other things that I can't talk about just yet. You can see everything that we shipped for January in the [changelog](https://www.codedex.io/blog/codedex-update-january-2025).
 
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 #### 3:00 - 7:00 PM
 
 The rest of the day consists of getting some deep work done, removing any blockers for myself or other teammates, shooting some content for our socials, and calling it a day around 7 PM.
 
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 #### 7:00 - 9:30 PM
 
 Heading back home is an hour ride where I just spam Juice WRLD on repeat. By the time I'm home, it's 8 PM, and I'll spend the next hour and a half decompressing and getting something to eat.
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 Totaling my daily calorie intake to 845 calories. Which is all I'll have for the day. A bit more on this below.
 
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 #### 9:30 - 11:00 PM
 
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 GYM TIME 💪🏋️‍♂️
 
 Because I'm on a weight loss journey, I try to exercise 4-5 times a week for at least 90 minutes. Which I split into two sections. 45 minutes of cardio, treadmill, and stair masters. 45 minutes of weights. For the weights, I honestly don't know what each of the exercises is called lol. But I try to do 4-6 variations with the dumbbells and machines.
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 Heading back home, showering, and doom scrolling Twitter for 20 minutes.
 
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 #### 12:30 - 3:00 AM
 
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 Because this is a startup, the grind truly never ends. For every successful startup you see, there are a hundred others that never made it.
 
 And to prevent Codédex from being one of those, it means putting in relentless effort even when it seems unnecessary. Like putting in hours past 12 AM. Whether to get out a feature one day early into the hands of users or fixing a bug that less than 1% of users will notice. Everything matters.
 
 During these hours, I'll be working on the foundations for the next big project, fixing bugs, or just prepping docs for the next day's meetings. It varies from day to day. I usually try to call it around 2 AM, but it ends up being 3 AM, and some days even 5 AM.
 
 But yeah, that's the day in the life of an SWE building a startup, office edition. The next one might be the a -home edition, which I will most likely post in the [OPC](https://www.codedex.io/community), so feel free to follow me there!
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