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Kicked off my personal challenge - 12 Apps in 12 Months - in order to force myself to deliver personal projects as opposed to just tinker with stuff and never m
by lordbusiness 12y ago
Kicked off my personal challenge - 12 Apps in 12 Months - in order to force myself to deliver personal projects as opposed to just tinker with stuff and never make it past the beginner phase.
It's working great; I have a slick kanban workflow on Trello going on, and a (tiny, irrelevant, but useful for this purpose) SaaS app in production.
App #2 is under way ahead of schedule since #1 reached MVP with a full week to spare of January.
It's obviously early days in the project, but I hope to make this my year of sincere effort, and personal growth.
- basicallydan 12y agoWhat's the tiny, irrelevant, but useful SaaS app? Great username, by the way.
- lordbusiness 12y agoThanks. I guess I'm about to blow my cover. :-) http://icon-sizerator.davidjpeacock.ca/ http://icon-sizerator.davidjpeacock.ca/ I know zillions of people have solutions for this, but it was a nice self-contained project.
- basicallydan 12y agoReally cool, man! I like it :) good job.
- lordbusiness 12y agoThank you! I checked out your public persona on twitter and GitHub; I love the techs you work with - so now you're my new best friend.
- basicallydan 12y agoWahey!! Thanks! New best friends are the best! :D
- sjs382 12y agoGreat job. I added a pull request containing the Android icon sizes.
- lordbusiness 12y agoThat's fantastic of you - thank you! I'll take a look later. :-) Very much appreciated!
- ponyous 12y agoCould you share more about workflow on Trello you have? (I imagine you are utilizing it alone)
- lordbusiness 12y agoSure. I believe it actually originated here on HN, though I got it from Pieter Levels. On my board I have the following lists: 2015 Week N | Now | Today | Tomorrow | Week | Month Long-term work items originate in the month list, and get moved left as time progresses. Obviously as items come up they can be input whenever is appropriate. At the end of the week, 2015 Week N is archived (I actually move it to another board), and a new week is created to cover the next week's completed work. This setup pressures me into meeting my commitments, and allows me to feel accomplished by looking at the previously completed weeks.
- thom 12y agoAh - you also work right to left, which for us has been one of the most sanity preserving changes we've ever made, by pushing larger backlog lists off the screen.
- Malcx 12y agoHa, identical goal for me, except it's about shipping something rather than just apps each month. I've posted elsewhere with links, but good to know others are doing the same. I'm thinking one months project might even be a platform to encourage others to do this in 2016...
- lordbusiness 12y agoYou're right; shipping something complete is the actual goal. I'm loosely defining the word app, and haven't seen how this will manifest entirely yet. Additionally, I'm allowing myself to port a previous month's app to another language or environment; January was my first exposure to Node.js for example, but maybe later in the year I'll rework it in Go.