Here's my week 2 update for my nights&weekends project, trendy.so. This week I setup an automated CRON job to generate the news stories, built the login & user preference views, and I'm about to finish the daily newsletter service.
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- I'm kicking off the new year by revisiting Rob Walling's "stair-step approach" to solopreneurship.
- My journey building FindPlugins.ai, a discovery tool for ChatGPT plugins. Learn how Next.js, MongoDB Atlas, Mongoose, Chakra UI, and TailwindCSS came together to form the ideal tech stack.
- After 36 years on this planet, I'm finally willing to admit that I'm a builder, not an entrepreneur... It's time to change all that.
- With the new year upon us, I've decided to use this arbitrary date boundary as an excuse to force myself to experiment with some new technologies. As a result, I've decided to start a little #BuildInPublic challenge for myself that I'm calling 12 in 21.
- Some friends recently reached out to me for help creating an MVP (minimum viable product) for a software idea they had to help families share information. I spent a bunch of time this Saturday hacking away at some new features for that app.
Coming soon at https://Trusting.co!
- Found some free time this Saturday to finally sit down and really focus on adding some new features to Casts.co. Thought it would be fun to #BuildInPublic and record myself while coding. It turns out, I look very angry while coding haha.
- I wish I could explain to you the feeling you get when your podcast shows up on your own podcasting app...
- Rather than learning all about the podcasting ecosystem by myself in a bubble, I want to share what I've learned the last couple of days so others who just getting started won't need to start at square one as well. This led me to the idea of creating an "open source" list of podcasting tools and services for others to use as an initial starting point.
- I finally took the leap and recorded my first podcast episode! Now, as a result of having more free time on my hands this week, I've started researching podcasting tools & resources to help me with the next steps...
- With the world's growing interest in virtual assistants, I've been wanting to experiment with more audio-based technologies. This is how my original idea for my clip.ps project got started. I wanted to build something where users could upload audio clips, splice them together, and tell their story.