Two years ago, frustrated with a long list of unfulfilled project ideas in my phone notes, I decided to give myself one week to try each idea out in its tiniest form.
Build the thing you wish to see in the world
For most of my career, I've been confusing building products with building businesses—and that confusion kept me from pursuing a lot of ideas. Two weeks off helped me realize that not everything needs to be a startup, and some of the best things we build are the ones we build just because we want them to exist.
Designing for failure
Nobody starts a free-software project hoping that it will fail, so it is a rare project indeed [...]
Project Xanadu: Even More Hindsight
Retrospective on Project Xanadu’s success and failure: a lack of design iteration, meaningful use-cases, or practicality stopped a valuable vision from maturing into something useful. (And contrasted with my approach.)
Strategies for Long Projects - Ben Brostoff
I’m in the middle of three multi-month to a year projects right now: Writing a book Running a marathon Building a ...
Implementing an Idea-Management System — LessWrong
This post is for you if: • 1. Projects that excite you are growing to be a burden on your to-do list 2. You have a nagging sense that you’re not ma…
RECONSIDER
About 12 years ago, I co-founded a startup called Basecamp: A simple project collaboration tool that helps people make progress together, sold on a monthly subscription. It took a part of some people’s work life and made it a little better. A little nicer than trying to manage a project over…
Tiny Tool Town 🏘️
A delightful showcase for free, fun & open source tiny tools. Stupid-delightful software made with love.
Project vs. Product, Startup vs. Business
A couple of weeks ago I dropped into a thread by Mosh Lee, about how ATproto has too many projects and too few businesses. Yes!
The unreasonable effectiveness of just showing up everyday
Six years, no deadlines, and one rule: write some code every day. That slow, stubborn routine turned a side project into a sustainable search company.
OpenMinis/AwesomeMinis
😎 A curated collection of real-world Minis use cases, workflows, and creative scenarios — contributed by the community
Lotus Blossom
Focus the power of brainstorming using a structured, visual representation of ideas—pushing you to fill out every box with new ideas.. Time: 60+minutes Group Size: 2+ people Level: Beginner
Home Page : 11th Hour Project
We work with farmers and food systems workers to develop technology that is responsive to the needs of small-holder producers.
When your project isn’t making money
It might be that you’re losing money on every sale (Which means that each and every item you sell, every service you perform, costs you money. Bigger won’t make you better…) Becau…
Don’t change the subject
Many creatives know this phenomenon: They start a new project on a promising topic with excitement, but when they can’t come up with an original idea instantly — they lose interest. They come to th…
