Ship

Over the weekend, I made something fun. I shared it with some friends. But I was more proud of the fact that I was able to ship something very quickly. I haven’t worked on a side project in a long time and I haven’t shipped anything in a much longer time, so being able to end the dry streak was a personal win. Things that helped along the way were:

1. reducing the feature list to keep things very basic
2. having prior experience on launching a website (this blog!!!)
3. using netlify to quickly upload and build the website

Another thing that really helped me was picking Svelte as my Javascript framework. I’ve never used it before, but I’ve seen it been recommeneded quite a lot. It was really helpful to use their online examples REPL to flesh out the prototype. Because rather than having the mental overhead of “omagerd I’m making something”, I could relax and just think that I was experimenting with something. So approaching the task with a playful mindset also aided in shipping the webapp.

I would like to work on more things in the future, and by recording this mindset, I can always come back and remember how shipping is not so bad after all.