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Re: 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

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Post by oa335 »

swayvil wrote: post #7

My 10 year project (a computer-geometry-art thing) (yes, 10 years, 1 project) was a great success. I made zip cash. But that was not the aim of the project. http://www.fleen.org/generative-art/

Do you have any recommendations as to how to get started creating your style of generative art?

I have been interested in a similar project for sometime, but don’t know the best place to get started. My background is in Math, so I’d really like to understand the “why” and “how” of these types of algorithms rather than just plugging in some parameters and getting a nice picture.

Re: 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

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Post by namenotrequired »

mfollert wrote: post #13

"Get a Product Job (May 2020 - May 2021) This time the main objective was to learn something new by doing. I chose Ruby on Rails. It's a great framework to build websites quickly." Choosing Roby on Rails in 2020 as a "new framework" for web development ... sheesh.

It was clear to me the author meant “new to me”

Re: 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

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Post by bpodgursky »

mfollert wrote: post #13

"Get a Product Job (May 2020 - May 2021) This time the main objective was to learn something new by doing. I chose Ruby on Rails. It's a great framework to build websites quickly." Choosing Roby on Rails in 2020 as a "new framework" for web development ... sheesh.

I don't like using RoR personally, but it's not a dying platform. There's still a large active community around it. It's fine.

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Post by martincmartin »

herval wrote: post #15

All these have a thing in common: he gave up because they weren’t immediate successes. Some even had traction: 5 users in 3 months isn’t the incredible outlier story you hear time and time again, but it’s 5 people you can talk to, listen to what they want (and why they signed up anyway), then you gear up from there. We’re too conditioned to believe in the stories of immediate success and MVPs making tens of thousands…

Reminds me of "Good Software Takes Ten Years. Get Used To it." by Joel Spolsky.

https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/07/21/good-software-take...

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Post by ezekg »

herval wrote: post #15

All these have a thing in common: he gave up because they weren’t immediate successes. Some even had traction: 5 users in 3 months isn’t the incredible outlier story you hear time and time again, but it’s 5 people you can talk to, listen to what they want (and why they signed up anyway), then you gear up from there. We’re too conditioned to believe in the stories of immediate success and MVPs making tens of thousands…

Completely agree. Good ideas are abandoned too often because of bad advice from influencers and unrealistic expectations. I actually wrote about this a few weeks ago ^1.

^1: https://keygen.sh/blog/5-things-ive-learned-in-5-years/

Re: 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

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Post by ezekg »

mfollert wrote: post #13

"Get a Product Job (May 2020 - May 2021) This time the main objective was to learn something new by doing. I chose Ruby on Rails. It's a great framework to build websites quickly." Choosing Roby on Rails in 2020 as a "new framework" for web development ... sheesh.

Another day, another person saying Rails is dead.

*sigh*

Re: 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

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Post by kaycebasques »

Sharing some thoughts in the spirit of us all learning and improving:

Re: Planetoid my immediate first impression was "I don't understand what's going on here". With that one it seems like maybe the author should have vetted the basic idea with friends and family first and see if they get it.

Re: Minfinity it seems useful and is actually right up my alley! I feel like the strategy here would be to keep it in maintenance mode and wait and see if it ever picks up popularity (such as in a thread like this).

My big takeaway from reading the author's post is that it seems to drive home the importance of marketing/advertising/selling/etc. Those stories about the Collison brothers pitching their product to developers and then doing the somewhat socially awkward thing of pressuring them try it out right there on the spot is burned in my memory.

Re: 5 side projects in 6 years, earning $0

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Post by hoofhearted »

luto wrote: post #20
mfollert wrote: post #13

"Get a Product Job (May 2020 - May 2021) This time the main objective was to learn something new by doing. I chose Ruby on Rails. It's a great framework to build websites quickly." Choosing Roby on Rails in 2020 as a "new framework" for web development ... sheesh.

I'm not a RoR developer, but still: which framework would you use for a new web project in 2021?

Laravel, VueJS for quick prototyping.

Asp.net core with ReactJS for web, and React Native for Windows for any serious projects with SLA’s or multiple developers.

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