Surviving medical school while building my Saas business

Hye there, I’m Syahru, third year medical student and an aspiring wannabe entrepreneur. The reason I do this is because I my passion truly lies in developing/building. I like medicine but I’m not naturally attracted toward it. With coding, I am.

A few decision that I make along the way of making my Saas

1. Change my mindset to “Full time indie-hacker, part time medical student”
2. No longer giving it 100%
3. Being okay with being the dumb one
4. No initiative

Changing my mindset to “Full time indie-hacker, part time medical student”.

The seed of building a Saas business started around 6 months ago when I was developing a question bank for my university. Then I read the “Lean Startup”. Fast forward to 3 months ago, I decided to take this Saas business and building audience on twitter more seriously. For the sake of simplicity, around a week ago I officially have this mindset. I will treat this as my main focus and the medical school as side-hustle thing.

No longer giving it 100%

I would just give comparison before and after I have the mindset shift to fully visualize this

1. I will do revision every night, using flashcards or reading backs the note. I will do this for a few hours after class. My weekend is absolutely filled with revision session and I rarely do anything else other than looking at my study material.

2. I no longer do revision unless it is exam week. Every night after class, I will open my laptop and either do marketing or developing and absolutely zero studying. Same goes with weekend. Initially I got a little scares seeing my friends studying while I doing some copywriting for my landing page or some stuff. The only time I do actually studying is a few days before exam and with only passing exam in mind and thus a lot of hacking activities is done including only reading the past year and so on.

No initiative

I no longer care to take initiative. This include to clerk more patient than I should. Instead I just set my baseline to be what I have to do to pass the current posting.