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I have a blog that I write hshidara.com that I don't care about doing well. My mind tends to wander and I have a hard time articulating and forming abstract ide

I have a blog that I write hshidara.com that I don't care about doing well. My mind tends to wander and I have a hard time articulating and forming abstract ideas verbally, usually I need to write it out in a journal, but this helps me get my thoughts even more in order because of the public nature of the content creating more social pressure to get it right. I have a tools section where I make small edge-case tools for myself, I host it on Render and use django admin so I can get away without having tons of core functionality in my tools. Technically they're MVPs that I launch on PH, but they never do well, but they're still useful to me and the problems it solves in my own life. But to answer you more seriously, I'm my own "I don't care if this succeeds" project. I don't think that I'm particularly smart or talented but I'm still young and excitable and exploring my own nature through software. Hopefully I'll make something that's really valuable to the world one day, but for now I learn, build, meet new people, fail, and grow. And that makes me happy.

animesh 5y ago
> I'm my own "I don't care if this succeeds" project. It is like you are me. I came to a similar conclusion independently. Whatever I do doesn't need to "succeed". The only think I push myself is to build and build. Meet new people and hope it opens new doors.
coffeefirst 5y ago
At this point I absolutely don't want my personal blog to "succeed." I don't want attention, or fame, or any of the shenanigans that come along with a large following. If it ever achieved these things I'd probably delete it. Building stuff just for yourself is underrated.
- sundarurfriend 5y ago
  It would be ironic if you followed that comment with a link to the blog :D
  - coffeefirst 5y ago
    Yes but if I did that I'd need to perfect the absurdity by adding an aggressive "sign up for my newsletter" lightbox, and that's a line I can't cross.

animesh 5y ago

> I'm my own "I don't care if this succeeds" project. It is like you are me. I came to a similar conclusion independently. Whatever I do doesn't need to "succeed". The only think I push myself is to build and build. Meet new people and hope it opens new doors.

coffeefirst 5y ago

At this point I absolutely don't want my personal blog to "succeed." I don't want attention, or fame, or any of the shenanigans that come along with a large following. If it ever achieved these things I'd probably delete it. Building stuff just for yourself is underrated.

sundarurfriend 5y ago
It would be ironic if you followed that comment with a link to the blog :D
- coffeefirst 5y ago
  Yes but if I did that I'd need to perfect the absurdity by adding an aggressive "sign up for my newsletter" lightbox, and that's a line I can't cross.