Projects Goals for Redesigning Wave Radio 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
Maker Life Building a Blog for Wave Radio 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
Wave Radio Why I Killed User Activity 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
Maker Life Wave Radio Launch 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
Maker Life Tired, But Good Tired Today I finally shared my project Wave Radio on Product Hunt. I've been delaying it for a bit and waiting for the right moment but as with most things sometimes you just need
Maker Life Risk being ridiculed 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
Maker Life Value Your Products 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
Maker Life The Trap of Building More 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.
Maker Life The Struggle To Finish A Side Project After a lot of technical and design work in the past month to get Wave Radio ready for launch, I'm finally launching the beta today.I started working on this project in August
Tech Google Killing Products Is Ok 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
Maker Life Putting Your Side Project On Auto Pilot When I launched my last side project, InboxReads, 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
Projects Designing A Logo For A Side Project 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
Projects Designing A Brand For A Side Project 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
Maker Life My Maker Journey So Far 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
