Congrats to your achievements, Jennifer. I heard of you previously from Pieter Levels (12 startups in 12 months). You guys are my role models!
How I Built 180 Websites in 180 days and became a YC Fellowship Founder
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#22Congrats to your achievements, Jennifer. I heard of you previously from Pieter Levels (12 startups in 12 months). You guys are my role models!
Thank you! Pieter is awesome :)
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#23This is really cool Jennifer. Hope you will be in the YC core program this time. All the best.
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#24This is super awesome and inspirational. What was the most frustrating experience you had in your 180 day challenge?
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#25This is super awesome and inspirational. What was the most frustrating experience you had in your 180 day challenge?
During the project I had to travel from San Francisco to Pennsylvania for family obligations. I managed to do a pretty good job of keeping my coding schedule up while flying and spending time with my family, but I ended up having to stay up pretty late to finish each day's website.
By the end of the trip I was really burnt out but I still needed to crank something out on the flight home. I had an idea for a site where you could enter a few hexadecimal color codes and the screen would transition between them. It seemed totally easy in my sleep deprived state but when I started working on it on the plane I totally floundered.
When I finally got back home to my apartment in SF, it was 9pm and I had virtually nothing to to show for my day's work. Also, I was now freaking out. I didn't know how I was going to be able to push up anything!
I took a look at what I originally wanted to do and what little I had done and realized if I reigned in my scope a bit, I could get a website out before I completely lost my mind. I pared it down to just two colors and cut out all the bells and whistles and just barely managed to get it out the door. And then I had a very, very nice sleep.
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#26This is super awesome and inspirational. What was the most frustrating experience you had in your 180 day challenge?
During the project I had to travel from San Francisco to Pennsylvania for family obligations. I managed to do a pretty good job of keeping my coding schedule up while flying and spending time with my family, but I ended up having to stay up pretty late to finish each day's website. By the end of the trip I was really burnt out but I still needed to crank something out on the flight home. I had an idea for a site wher…
Cool, thanks Jennifer! That was some serious dedication, super admirable. :)
One more question, although I've already asked a lot of you. How did you make sure you conceptually understood what you were learning at every stage, not just simply taking code and just replacing bits of it here and there?
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#27Earlier quoted context omitted.
During the project I had to travel from San Francisco to Pennsylvania for family obligations. I managed to do a pretty good job of keeping my coding schedule up while flying and spending time with my family, but I ended up having to stay up pretty late to finish each day's website. By the end of the trip I was really burnt out but I still needed to crank something out on the flight home. I had an idea for a site wher…
Cool, thanks Jennifer! That was some serious dedication, super admirable. :) One more question, although I've already asked a lot of you. How did you make sure you conceptually understood what you were learning at every stage, not just simply taking code and just replacing bits of it here and there?
I had tried picking up textbooks and online courses before I started the 180 project and none of them stuck for me. While I could do the exercises, but I never felt like I was understanding how to actually use the skills I was learning.
With the 180 Websites project I was forced to figure out how to apply code to make something function. I didn't always know exactly how things worked, but by starting with small manageable tasks I was able to have a pretty good understanding of what I was doing. Pushing forward, day by day, the things that were a bit hazy started falling into place.
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#28I am deeply encouraged by your article. Surprisingly! I was thinking of doing the same thing prior to reading your article, which is, as part of my 100 day of code challenge to build a website every day and GitHub it. I guess the reason for my procrastination is being afraid of using GitHub, my lack of javascript knowledge & I barely know any design. Your input is definitely helpful! I really want to start being proficient in those areas mentioned. Also what learning resource would you recommend for javascript front & back end, web/application design, UX design and better grips on Github!
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#29Hello, great job, I started following you first a few months back. My questions are,A: if you had to start all over again, what would you do differently. B: how did you decide on what to build each day in those 180 days. Last and this is the most important, I think learning by doing is the best way, is there a way where your experiences could be optimized for a newbie, where he/she could start from day one, build something and learn a specific part of a technology, and all the way to the end.
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#30Thanks so much for sharing Jen. So inspiring!