Stories and lessons learnt in my journey building side projects.
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.
Side Projects
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
Side Projects
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