Stories and lessons learnt in my journey building side projects.
Side Projects
2024 has been a year of pretty much no growth for my main project, InboxReads. I did start the year with lofty ambitions but those have failed to materialise. Yet I'm still optimistic about the project. Learning my market I started the year thinking I knew what the
Side Projects
Pieter Levels recently kicked off a big discussion online about the state of web infrastructure. He says that developers are being pushed towards using frameworks and services for their products with the promise that they take away a lot of complexity in exchange for high subscription fees but doing things
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
Side Projects
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
Side Projects
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
Side Projects
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
Side Projects
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
Side Projects
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
Side Projects
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
Side Projects
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
Side Projects
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