Posts about my journey and observations as a maker.
Projects
This week I've started working on a major redesign of Wave Radio and it's becoming a lot bigger than I anticipated. While I'm testing out new ideas and trying to find the best one I think I need to keep in mind the reasons
Maker Life
Recently I've decided to shift my focus on Wave Radio to growth. The goal is to gauge the results of product improvements I've made in the past few months since launch. I'm not looking to find a million users now but rather I'
Wave Radio
A while back I wrote about how the product incentives I'd built into Wave Radio had pushed users' behaviour in a direction I didn't anticipate. To win the weekly game of "who's the best music discover-er" a few users would just
Maker Life
About two weeks ago I finally launched my latest project, Wave Radio. A community for sharing and discovering new music. It's been far from an astronomical launch story but there's been enough growth for me to be encouraged. The initial launch included a few tweets and
Maker Life
Today I finally shared my project Wave Radio on Product Hunt [https://www.producthunt.com/posts/wave-radio]. I've been delaying it for a bit and waiting for the right moment but as with most things sometimes you just need to do it. So far I have to say
Maker Life
In the past few months, I've been working at taking more risks especially when it comes to my work. I like to think I'm a risk taker but I can also be hesitant and get stuck worrying about the potential to be embarrassed. I've
Maker Life
I launched InboxReads back in September of 2017 with the intention that'd it be a long process to grow the site to a point where it could possibly make some money. In most of the time since I focused on just that. I tried new tactics to grow
Maker Life
Being a maker requires you to put yourself and your work in front of the world. You are required to share your passions, your goals, and more. You have to be ready to face negative feedback or even worse, deafening silence. Many of our projects are labours of love. They
Maker Life
Being able to code can be a blessing and a curse as a maker. It's easy to fall into a trap of building more features when you should be working on other things. Typically you're drawn to the kind of work you're most experienced
Maker Life
After a lot of technical and design work in the past month to get Wave Radio [https://waveradio.co] ready for launch, I'm finally launching the beta today. I started working on this project in August 2018 but progress completely stalled when I found some technical issues with
Tech
Where were you when Google announced they were killing Google Reader? If your answer is "What's Google Reader?", then you're in the majority. But in the world of mega-corps like Google, a product loved by a minority can have a user base of millions.
Maker Life
When I launched my last side project, InboxReads [https://inboxreads.co], it took up a lot of my time. Building the site was easy but to add new newsletters, and share content on social media took a ton of time. At the time my day job had me super busy
Projects
When designing a logo I try to think of a few ideas and then quickly test them out and see how they feel when translated to a digital image. I'm not a designer so I don't go for any designs that are too extravagant. I try
Projects
This one of my favourite parts of any project. After picking a name, which took me way too long this time around, I start designing a style for the entire project. Elements of this style usually come up in the development process so I use pieces of the design I
Maker Life
For most of my life, I've been making things and putting them out into the world. It started with simple websites for myself, ambitious attempts at games, random blogs, videos, and now software products. The vast majority of those aren't worth sharing now but I thought