Does anyone have advice for taking a simple project like this and hiring a designer to make it look a bit more polished?
Six Months of Tiny Projects
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#72I don't understand why the other comments are being so negative, this is awesome . There's a Jony Ive quote along the lines of "when you build something, you get the actual thing, but even more valuable is how you've grown and changed from building that thing. Best of luck on your future projects, great on you to make awesome stuff and grow as a person!
I agree, This was a fun read. I also think this is a really excellent way to gain some experience, do something fun, and potentially hit on a big idea. I can definitely see the excitement of creating something small but semi-viral on the internet
Yeah I bet generally that doing 12 different thing and in year and then pivot best one fields better outcome than grinding one
thing.
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#73Job well done. If anything, more people should build their tiny projects in public and document their journey like you did. Dribbble used to be this place for designers, where a community came together to show work in progress and get feedback from one an other. (then it turned into a marketing platform). There isn't really something like that for tiny software projects. If there was, I would be checking in on a dail…
> There isn't really something like that for tiny software projects
IndieHackers seems close enough to me
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#74I don't understand why the other comments are being so negative, this is awesome . There's a Jony Ive quote along the lines of "when you build something, you get the actual thing, but even more valuable is how you've grown and changed from building that thing. Best of luck on your future projects, great on you to make awesome stuff and grow as a person!
No matter what someone does HN will always be filled with a bunch of negative comments because this place is filled with a bunch of haters... Dare I say bitter ass haters
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#75Job well done. If anything, more people should build their tiny projects in public and document their journey like you did. Dribbble used to be this place for designers, where a community came together to show work in progress and get feedback from one an other. (then it turned into a marketing platform). There isn't really something like that for tiny software projects. If there was, I would be checking in on a dail…
Well your first tiny project could be a HN-alike for people to showcase their tiny projects. :)
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#76Don't pay attention to the negative nellies. Even these tiny "worthless" projects end up having value because they build a tool chest of skills and code snippets that make each subsequent project quicker and more sophisticated. Eventually you'll Frankenstein pieces of a dozen of these together into something big.
As a reader of that site and a student in tech, my friends and I have already received value from it.
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#77Job well done. If anything, more people should build their tiny projects in public and document their journey like you did. Dribbble used to be this place for designers, where a community came together to show work in progress and get feedback from one an other. (then it turned into a marketing platform). There isn't really something like that for tiny software projects. If there was, I would be checking in on a dail…
My school has something called devgarden[0] although it is more of a curation of student built project repo than a detailed site like tinyprojects.
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#78Snormal is really cool even at this stage!
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#79> Today, people have created over 1400 stores, selling everything from t-shirts, to human beings.
Selling human beings!!! really?
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#80The gist of the article is: The OP created a tiny project, launched it on Product Hunt/Hacker News, and moved to creating another project. I'm glad he acknowledges the problem with this: "A Product Hunt launch can easily get you a spike in traffic, but afterwards I really don't know what I'm doing". Here are some tips to help with this: 1) Explore more "steady" acquisition channels. Yes, PH/HN are "spike-y" channels…
+1 for Traction. I reached out to Gabriel on Twitter about creating an app companion to the book to guide you thru the process. He was supportive and it's on my side project list for December or early next year.