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One Item Store actually solves a real problem that a lot of people have. I know nothing about web development, and spent days getting a "one item store" WooCommerce/Wordpress site set up a couple of years back. The performance is woeful and I've been hacked multiple times. Your sites are so snappy and I'm assuming secure-by-default as they're static. On the other hand, though, your sites look more like Craigslist ads…
I work 9 to 5, and want to have time for a lot of essential activities like: reading, jogging, be informed, visit family, hangout, play some games with friends online and sleep well (aka 8h).
I am starting to assume that it's impossible to cramp all these activities in 24 h so I should organize the activities in a week.
How do you guys do it?
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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. [0] https://devgarden.macalester.edu
This is fantastic! Do you know if there's an open source project/framework powering this site? Seems really valuable for powering inner-source and private developer communities.
Just opened up a one item store for my surfing shower product!! Super cool concept. https://oneitem.store/pomo Couldn't find the repo so added a feature request here: https://twitter.com/mixcocam/status/1329201542411538441?s=20
Took 10min to setup including payments. Could be an alternative to ebay at this pace!
Any sales from it?
One suggestion is to put in the image width and height so your text doesn't bounce down on initial page load.
Don'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.
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My main business started as a side-project. Not as tiny as the ones in the article, but it wasn't meant to be my main source of income. And yes, it took years of marketing to reach a mature state, but the essence is that experimenting is what usually brings the real money.
You kind of make my point. You turned your website into a business by spending the time to convert it. Experimenting is fine and it’s fun to build websites and web apps, I do it too. But if I’m not willing to spend the time to listen to clients, figure out what they want and what they’ll pay for, then to me it’s just a hobby.
From the author's description of the One Item Store: > Don't get me wrong, I'm happy with the final product, I think its actually really cool. But building it.. it was just a bit boring. There were lots of bugs, and I started to get a bit burnt out thinking about the endless list of things required for a good online store builder. https://tinyprojects.dev/projects/one_item_store This is a fascinating observation. In…
There is an old story about pottery students. A school split a pottery class into two groups. They instructed the first group to focus on making a few exceptional pieces. They judged the second group based on the number of pieces they created measured by weight. The result was that the best pieces came from the second group; those that focused on quantity. There is value in the experience gained when focusing on quan…
I would be just to afraid for certain ideas like the shop thing. One credit card fraud going through my system and i might in a big dept if i did this under a company format which doesn't protect me from personal liability. While i like the idea very much of getting exercise in this way, i'm wondering what the main motivation is? I would like to earn money through my own company but only with my product i like and fi…
If you're using a reputable payment processor (like Stripe), they should be handling fraud detection and remediation for you. The real thing to watch out for is using your marketplace to sell illegal things. It was even mentioned that there were people for sale... I'm guessing that was done as a joke but it also happens for real. I've considered many ideas like that One Item Shop and turned away from them because I w…