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Discussion on: If you want to ship a side project, start with unlearning the best practices

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Sdu

From dozens of failed projects and gigs to jumping from idea to idea. You just defined my story as if you were reading my mind. This article felt like I wrote it myself! (Difference being that I have less industry experience 🤣 and I'm horrible with words)

I can't wait to share your article. I have this one free app on Google play that took me 3 days to write and publish (the first version of course) and I have a 2 year long project that never saw the light.

Write more of these man!

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Sasha Koss

I'm glad it resonated with you! Thank you for showing the support!

What stops you from releasing your two-year long project? Maybe you don't realize, but it's quite ready for its first users? A wise man said that what you should ship product while you still embarrassed about it. When you don't that means it's too late!

I had a breakthrough when I set myself a deadline to ship a web app in a week and did it publicly on Twitter. The combination of constants that made me think about how to reduce the scope and accountability helped to achieve the goal. Once I shipped it on Product Hunt and received a lot of positive feedback I got me wanting more of that. I got hooked!

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Sdu • Edited

I made the mistake of assuming. As you said, I hadn't even published any piece of it and I was struggling with how I'll be processing credit cards. I added so many features that tech debt caught up with me. I am still looking forward to working on it again. I'm still babysitting the android app for now.

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Sasha Koss

I see. Good luck with both projects!