I spent three weeks at a logistics startup trying to build a “strategic roadmap” for our internal tooling, mostly because a consultant told us we…

I spent three months building a side project back in my logistics days, convinced that if the code was clean and the architecture was scalable,…

I spent three weeks building a side project last year, only to realize I had no idea how to actually tell people it existed. I…

I remember sitting in a dimly lit apartment in 2014, staring at a Stripe dashboard that had finally ticked over from zero to one. I…

I remember sitting in my kitchen at 3:00 AM, staring at a terminal window and wondering why my “simple” subscription logic had just triggered forty…

I’ve seen people spend three weeks debating the merits of `.io` versus `.app` or shell out hundreds of dollars for a “premium” name that sounds…

I once spent an entire weekend trying to architect a “perfectly scalable” Kubernetes cluster for a hobby project that had exactly four users—me and three…

I remember sitting in a dark apartment at 3:14 AM, staring at a terminal window while a “revolutionary” distributed database I’d insisted on using three…

I remember sitting in my kitchen at 1:00 AM, staring at a terminal window and realizing that I wasn’t “building a product” anymore—I was just…

I’ve spent enough time in the industry to know that most “advice” on how to ship a side project in public is just a thinly…