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How I built 100 Projects in 100 Days

Florin Pop on December 27, 2019

Originally published on my blog. I finished the #100Days100Projects challenge πŸ₯³ and in this article I’m going to cover my experience doing this...
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Mubashir Hassan

Hello!
It was an interesting article...
you said about sharing posts on social media takes time...
I think there is an app called "Buffer" which helps you share posts on multiple SM platforms ar once...
and you can also schedule posts.

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Florin Pop

I’ll look into it! Thank you! πŸ˜ƒ

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Mubashir Hassan
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Puspa Bangun Subekti • Edited

just realized that you're the creator of
codepen.io/FlorinPop17/pen/LzYNWa

just wanna say thanks, I use your animated countdown on my office app launch event,,

keep productive and congrats on your challenge..

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Florin Pop

Your welcome! I'm happy it was useful for you!

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Raja Kannan 🀠 • Edited

That was an inspiring challenge!

I have a question though, I'm a developer and I cannot really design as you do now.

All your designs were amazing in this challenge, but why your blog design looks very ordinary?

After checking out your 100 projects I was expecting your blog to look even more interesting.

PS: your blog is still looking good for my eyes, not complaining about it πŸ™
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Florin Pop

I'm glad you found the challenge inspiring!

My blog looks ordinary because... I'm not a designer πŸ˜†

The projects from #100Days100Projects were inspired from dribbble designs - so... they're catchy! 😜

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Raja Kannan 🀠

Gotcha! you are a good designer already! 😊

Cheers

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Tanmay Naik

Congratulations! I never attempted it because I have the need to do everything as good as I can make it. And it just didn't feel like a good idea to push myself like that, considering I would have to abandon paid projects to focus on it, which is just not feasible at this point. Might try the 30 day variant after reading your article though!

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Florin Pop

You know... I am a perfectionist too sometimes, but I try to drop it as it's not doing very good for the long term.

Instead of trying to make it perfect on the first try, why not just do it, and then improve as you go. At the end of the day "perfect" doesn't exist.

Try the 30 days variant or maybe even the 7 days one. πŸ˜ƒ
Have fun!

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Faisal Arisandi

100 Projects in 100 Days?
Each project take only 1-1.5 hours a day?

Okay, I'm done.
I think I wanna cry 😭

How productive you are?
πŸ‘πŸ»

While in the different of side of this universe, there was me who can even execute anything.

I was always overthinking over everything.
πŸ˜…

I always find idea which I thought awesome.
And it turns out, I couldn't even start it.

I learn web from html, css, JS all the way to NodeJS, MongoDB and Postgresql. (Even start thinking to learn Go, and Julia (as I was fascinated with math)).
But it turns out, I am perhaps the prove of "Jack of trade, Master of none."

Nothing I could start, other than just finishing project in my work.
I hate it.
Why I can't start my own project.

Thinking about the layout itself is easy to become overwhelm with it. Not even the JS methods, API, whatever.

All I can do is just thinking of it, create the illusion of done, all in my mind only. Haha.

Procrastination at its finest.
😭

I wish I could get motivation by reading your article.
πŸ™πŸ»

The minimum of 1 project done in my entire lifetime.
πŸ˜πŸ˜‚

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Florin Pop • Edited

There is this "overthinking" barrier that you must brake.

Just do it. Don't overthink it. Do it as simple as possible, create the MVP and then you can later add more functionalities.

I wish you the best!

~ Sent from another galaxy πŸ‘½

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Mohammed Asker

Congrats on finishing 100 days of project, Florin! It was fun following your progress and finally learned about your secret of coming up with new ideas.

If you didn't know already, Buffer can do that exactly for you. Even the free version is enough for you as you can post to three social media at the same time.

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Florin Pop

Interesting. Thanks for sharing!

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Allan N Jeremy

Congrats!

That's some discipline you've got there. Are there any days where something unexpected happened? If so, how did you work around it?

I don’t know. Haven’t failed a challenge yet. πŸ˜†

Humble flex 😏

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Florin Pop

Thank you Allan!

I had 2 days that I was forced to code on my phone as I was away from home! πŸ˜†
Other than that... it was alright!

Humble flex πŸ˜‚

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Ali Sherief

Wow, completing 100 projects in 100 days is like running a marathon πŸƒπŸƒ. A question though: How did you "pay" $25 every time you were late?

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Florin Pop

I was never late so I didn’t have to pay 😜

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Emma Goto πŸ™

I took a look at your projects - that's insane! How many hours a day do you think you spent on each one?

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Florin Pop

As I mentioned in the article...

I would say that it took a average of 1-1.5h to build a project.

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Emma Goto πŸ™

Oops, totally missed that section πŸ˜…

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Liana Felt (she/her)

Wow

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freedomxam

Good bro!

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Jaime GonzΓ‘lez GarcΓ­a

Amazing job!! πŸ’ͺπŸ‘πŸ˜πŸ‘

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kuzzzzz

Bro you are awesome, this is awesome it's insanely awesome, I'm screaming right now πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘πŸ‘ man this is a big source of motivation thanks for sharing

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Florin Pop

Haha, don't scream, you might scare someone πŸ˜‚

I'm glad it motivates you!

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Yaroslav Ryzhkov

OMG... That is amazing!! Waiting for your 31 videos on YTπŸƒ.

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Florin Pop

Is coming in January πŸ”₯

Make sure you subscribe πŸ˜ƒ

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Milan Thapa

you are inspiring...

Cheers!!

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Florin Pop

Cheers! πŸ˜ƒ

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Amir Meimari

Nice challenge. I'm thinking about doing it too 😌

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Florin Pop

Do it!!

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Abdulfatai Suleiman

Wow the projects are amazing. Am still surprise how you overcome procrastination and perfection. Apart from HTML/CSS and JS, Did you use any CSS framework like Bootstrap or Materialize Css?

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Florin Pop

I only used Skeleton CSS once. Other than that... I don’t remember using a framework πŸ˜ƒ

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Jean 'Jeazy' Felisme

Congrats and thanks for sharing your journey with the the challenge. I never heard of it before but I will give at least the 30 day version a short.

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Florin Pop

Awesome! πŸ˜ƒ

I wish you the best! Don’t forget to share your progress πŸ”₯

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Oleg Abrazhaev • Edited

There is a mistake in dates

17 September 2019


must be 2018 I guess

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Florin Pop

It’s 2019. This year πŸ˜ƒ