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Hello poidos, (I'm the author of this blog post) I couldn't do all these things when I was in school :) I worked in companies for a few years and learned some
by wenbin 7y ago
Hello poidos,
(I'm the author of this blog post)
I couldn't do all these things when I was in school :) I worked in companies for a few years and learned some engineering practices. Then I had basic skills to prototype my own side projects. Then after working on many silly side projects, I started Listen Notes.
And initially, Listen Notes was running on 3 tiny DigitalOcean servers ($5/month each?). I logged in each server to git pull to "deploy to production". Then I added things little by little, day by day. It's a process. The key is to get started. People say that showing up is 80% (or whatever percentage) of success. I think this is very true. Just get started and you'll figure out things along the way.
- mypalmike 7y agoThanks for the info. It's an interesting set of tools today, but it's helpful to hear that it has evolved to that point in terms of automation and infrastructure. The first version of a web service can be as simple as flask app which you run in a screen session somewhere. Better to start somewhere than get overwhelmed and never do the thing at all.
- numbers 7y agoExactly what I'd like to tell younger devs and students. You build smaller projects on the side for a bit to familiarize yourself with things until you're ready to start something or something comes along by way of the side projects!
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- poidos 7y agoI appreciate the response!! It is wonderful to hear about the evolution of your process, thank you :)