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Ship it like Honeybadger

Joshua Wood on February 05, 2019

A long time ago, my friends and I were in trouble. An app we used almost every day to debug software for our clients had basically stopped working,...
 
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Making it work with a small team and no external investment has forced us to come up with the most creative solutions.

Love this, same here. It's really cool to see how others are solving hard problems with creativity and automation. Thanks!

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C.S. Rhymes

I love your mentality. It’s so easy to bury yourself under a ton of excuses and never ship anything.
I’ve made a Jekyll theme that started off very simple, but released it, and now update it every few weeks with new features to enhance it. It’s made me realise you can start off small and build things up over time.

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Jaff Parker

I just recently realized that I have quite a few ideas that still haven't come to life just because I'm thinking that to start them I have to sit down and write a bunch of diagrams and spend my vacation on shipping the first version. But it's true, if I just built a draft-kind version that just solves my needs, I could just deliver further incremental updates that eventually make it into an app. Thanks for the encouragement, wish you guys all the best in your business!

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Joshua Wood

Same to you, Jaff. Ship it!

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Joshua Wood

Right on, Alex, that's awesome! Interested in how you sell that type of SaaS to the trade/service industry. Have you shared anything about that? I imagine you make a lot of phone calls. :)

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Sven Hoffmann

Pretty inspiring post!

I hope I'll be able to 'ship' my first post on this site today or tomorrow. In the future, I'd like to ship the new version of my personal site.

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Joshua Wood

Thanks Sven, glad you liked it. I see you shipped your first post. Nice work! 🚀

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Sven Hoffmann

Thanks! :)

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Ximena

Great post, encouraging. Will set my mind in "ship it" mode from now on.
Thanks!

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Molly Struve (she/her)

WOOT!!! So glad you made it over to dev.to 😃

Oh yeah, and this post is pretty great too 😉

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Joshua Wood

yayay, happy to be here. :)

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Rohan Sawant

Inspiring!

I have been trying to ship my React app, out for days!