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Ask HN: Designing a self-motivating program to build and ship projects
NOTE: I am explicitly leveraging Cunningham's Law.
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About me: entrepreneur wannabe, overeducated, too much experience, financially stable, insecure (fighting Anxiety).
The goal: to have a profitable company selling bits (not atoms, not time) that allows me to quit my full-time executive job making 6-figure.
Methodology:
A: Brainstorm on my own, with the help of Google, to come up with a never-ending list of projects, Tiny Projects' style, then allocate $1,000 investment budget and 2-weeks to each, if the project achieves traction fine, otherwise move on to the next project.
B: The goal of project # 1 would be for me to actually start and ship, something I have been procrastinating for too long now.
C: As I continue with my projects, they will be more and more commercial in nature.
D: Each project will be low_risk_low_capital / high_impact_high_reward project.
Scope of this post: Looking for insightful comments, criticism, accolades, encouragements, and links to useful resources.
TIA
- anon2020dot00 4y agoRead the Innovator's Dilemma by Clayton Christiansen and all of his other well known books
- ecesena 4y agoIn the past (for a very short amount of time though) I tried something similar. To add a step to your methodology, I’ve looked for inspirations on IFTTT. The idea was to find popular workflows and build a small saas around it. And clearly developing building blocks I could reuse from one project to another. As I said I didn’t really follow through, it’s just not for me I guess. I hope this can help, best of luck!
- aristofun 4y agoWhy do you want it? What’s in it for you ?