Imagine you want to make a fun toy, but instead of building a gigantic castle, you just make a small, cool one first!
His secret sauce isn't working longer hours but rather a fast and rough approach. Each MVP is designed to solve his own problems, which may limit the audience but helps him hone in on what really works. The author embraces a minimalist
when I wanted to know which cities had the best cost of living for a traveling nomad like me, I built NomadList.
most of my ideas are actually there to solve my own problems
we might need to consider that a majority of us doing this stuff are young white males.
if we only solve our own problems, we limit ourselves in audience and problem settings.
Personally, in the long run, Iâd like to build more stuff that has a wider impact though.
Colin from Customer.io whose site is aptly titled I Am Not A Programmer. Iâm not and I donât want to be one either.
Programming is not my passion. Making stuff is my passion.
Just as I donât like mathematics, but I like how you can apply it to build a skyscraper.
When designing I usually start off with an idea of how it should look in my head already. I usually draw it out on paper first. For example, this is GoFuckingDoIt.com
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have a particular workflow with Trello. I think I saw somebody else on Hacker News do this and thatâs where I copied it from. I have a list for this year, this month, this week, today and now.
When I finish the task, I drag it to the list on the left. This list holds all completed tasks for this week. At the end of the week, I move this entire list out of the âto-doâ board to the âfinishedâ board.
the fun thing is, after a while of doing this, you can go to the âfinishedâ board and see everything you did for the last X weeks.
it makes you feel quite productive and proud of yourself!
Like I said itâs probably not following any best practices. But it works. I actually ship products.
the most important thing to remember is that it doesnât really matter how people do things.
When I used to make electronic music, the forums would be full of people asking âwhich tools do XXX use?â and âwhich program do you make this bassline withâ, and in the end it wouldnât matter. It doesnât matter if you use PHP, Node.JS, Ruby or whatever hip new language. Everyone uses different tools and has their own ways and tricks.
When you are unified with your tools, you can really make anything
Imagine you want to make a fun toy, but instead of building a gigantic castle, you just make a small, cool one first!
His secret sauce isn't working longer hours but rather a fast and rough approach. Each MVP is designed to solve his own problems, which may limit the audience but helps him hone in on what really works. The author embraces a minimalist
when I wanted to know which cities had the best cost of living for a traveling nomad like me, I built NomadList.
most of my ideas are actually there to solve my own problems
we might need to consider that a majority of us doing this stuff are young white males.
if we only solve our own problems, we limit ourselves in audience and problem settings.
Personally, in the long run, Iâd like to build more stuff that has a wider impact though.
Colin from Customer.io whose site is aptly titled I Am Not A Programmer. Iâm not and I donât want to be one either.
Programming is not my passion. Making stuff is my passion.
Just as I donât like mathematics, but I like how you can apply it to build a skyscraper.
When designing I usually start off with an idea of how it should look in my head already. I usually draw it out on paper first. For example, this is GoFuckingDoIt.com
/workers/
have a particular workflow with Trello. I think I saw somebody else on Hacker News do this and thatâs where I copied it from. I have a list for this year, this month, this week, today and now.
When I finish the task, I drag it to the list on the left. This list holds all completed tasks for this week. At the end of the week, I move this entire list out of the âto-doâ board to the âfinishedâ board.
the fun thing is, after a while of doing this, you can go to the âfinishedâ board and see everything you did for the last X weeks.
it makes you feel quite productive and proud of yourself!
Like I said itâs probably not following any best practices. But it works. I actually ship products.
the most important thing to remember is that it doesnât really matter how people do things.
When I used to make electronic music, the forums would be full of people asking âwhich tools do XXX use?â and âwhich program do you make this bassline withâ, and in the end it wouldnât matter. It doesnât matter if you use PHP, Node.JS, Ruby or whatever hip new language. Everyone uses different tools and has their own ways and tricks.
When you are unified with your tools, you can really make anything
