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Two months later, I can say that the decision to join nReduce was a right one. The requirement to ship every week keeps you motivated; this is exactly what I needed. As I said in my intro video, "My name is Alexander and I never finish (personal) projects." I'm sure there are many other developers who have 90%-ready projects but never get to showing them to the public. If you are one of these guys, consider joining n…
Another startup guy at nReduce here. Because of the time differences (I'm in India) I'm not able to participate actively in the community. I know I should learn to wake up early. What has really helped me are the weekly builds. I just missed uploading one update and I'm feeling so bad I couldn't do it on time. Needless to say, you get what you put in to the program. So far, it's been a self discipling tool for me.
I hope they changed policies.
I signed up the first day I heard of nReduce and got deeply disappointed when they required twitter access to log in. I hope they changed policies.
You can do a lot of interesting things when you meet weekly instead of monthly.
I haven't joined nReduce, but I thought it was a great idea and it inspired me to start a smaller weekly coffee meetup of product creators in my city. I call it the "Iterators" group. Similar concept: we are all working on stuff so meeting weekly and sharing feedback, status, etc. is a great way to stay accountable and share experience. You can do a lot of interesting things when you meet weekly instead of monthly.
Two months later, I can say that the decision to join nReduce was a right one. The requirement to ship every week keeps you motivated; this is exactly what I needed. As I said in my intro video, "My name is Alexander and I never finish (personal) projects." I'm sure there are many other developers who have 90%-ready projects but never get to showing them to the public. If you are one of these guys, consider joining n…
Solid! Way to do it!