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You move a mountain one stone at a time. I strongly recommend that you find a way to create structure for yourself and make (meaningful) bit of progress coding
by lefstathiou 10y ago
You move a mountain one stone at a time. I strongly recommend that you find a way to create structure for yourself and make (meaningful) bit of progress coding daily. Set goals and deadlines early and measure yourself against them. You're on the clock (limited cash to burn through) so it's important that you avoid rabbit hole ideas and "fail quickly". Good luck and send HN your work for us to test out and provide feedback.
- welpwelp 10y agoI like that idea and will keep you updated with progress. Thank you!
- inimino 10y agoThe fact that you are replying to the comments about how to make progress and keep coding, while not replying to some of the other kind of comments, is actually the biggest red flag. Coding is not going to be your biggest problem. Of course, it's possible you'll get lost in the weeds of some framework or scaling something that you don't need. I can tell from your replies that you get this and you understand you have to ship. Let's assume you got that covered. The real danger is that you will ship, and only then you will discover nobody wants to pay for what you built. From your pattern of replies, I suspect this is what is going to bite you, and it's why you shouldn't start with code at all and you shouldn't have any expectation of finding revenue before your savings run out. Anyway, as others have said, whether you take the excellent advice here or not, either way you will learn a lot by trying!
- welpwelp 10y agoI'm actually spending a few days to build tools to validate an idea, and not building even an MVP yet. Thank you for your feedback!