Hello Devs,
I'm currently looking to pool opinions and suggestions on an Saas platform I've been building, I'll be linking the repo and twitter channel at the end of this for those who wish to keep in touch.
A year ago, I stumbled across a picture which said, if you grew/learned or added to your knowledge base by one percent every day for a year, you'd make 30%+ progress. Now, even without ever verifying the math, I quickly understood the underlying message. Being good consistently is the ONLY sure fire recipe for greatness.
Following this path, I decided on tracking my growth over a year, making a daily snippet (day snip) and learning in public via my dev twitter (@Elixir_js).
Turns out, I made well over 30% growth in the last year in my field (UI engineering), secured a solid internship and successfully built a freelance client list to boot.
With this theme in mind, and my personal success story; I started building onePercent (twitter @on3Percent). A platform based on repetitive, public accountability.
The primary goal being to solve the problem of procrastination, along with building a public profile for yourself and your journey - a public journal of some sort.
Users contribute to a universal feed by creating daily accounts of what they've learned - each user gets one post a day; listing technology, topic, code snippet and a brief explanation of what they learned that day - accounting for their daily one percent.
The feed is public, other users can like, comment and share(outside) these short snippets or give accountability points.
Beyond solving procrastination, this platform also solves the problem of documentation for people who cannot blog about their experiences or have no affinity for technical writing - giving everyone a chance to be heard and noticed, and held accountable as they grow. Every week, your notes are compiled into a progress node and emailed to you...creating a form of personalized spaced repetition and giving you a sense of progression and achievement going into the next week.
At the moment, we're looking into more features and looking to hire QA engineers, a couple frontend engineers and a product manager to handle new features before official launch.
I'd love to hear your thoughts on this project and if this is something you'd love to add to your daily process(creating daily submissions of what you've learned), or be a part of.
The plan is to go open source in the near future, and make publicized modules for short contract roles to aid junior engineers in gaining paid experience while contributing to a project for the community.
Feel free to ask any questions to gain more insight about the features and suggest anything else you'd like to see added.
read more about continuous improvement here - https://jamesclear.com/continuous-improvement
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