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I’m Shipping 12 Startups in 12 Months 🚀

Sean Walker on January 10, 2018

Once upon a time in 2014, a guy who I am wholesale stealing from came up with an idea to launch one side project per month to get better at finishi...
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Juan De los santos

Great post!

Currently I'm trying to follow the same method to deliver my projects. In the past I have worked in some projects, but that toke me a lot of time to get that "done" because I was always trying to make the "perfect" code and I spend a lot of my time just re-writing components, but a the end of the day that was not validated by the users and as you said, they don't care about how your code looks like...

Now I understand how important is to create a MVP to see the behavior of the market and then release monthly changes according to that, is the best way to create a great product that the people will love to use.

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Brian McNabola

Wow very ambitious.
Do you have a specific framework you'll use all the time or choose based on the project?
Will you use a ci/cd pipeline to test and deploy ?

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Sean Walker

I do have a specific framework, I wrote my own in clojure so kind of a weird decision, but it's what makes me happy.

I won't have a ci/cd pipeline and I definitely won't be writing tests. It took me so long to shake my software engineering thoughts of robust code to get to this point of being able to just ship stuff and worry about scaling later. It's kind of freeing once you think, oh wait, I don't have any users or any traffic or anything. I can just put stuff on a page that looks halfway decent and go from there.

I will say though that I'm not just writing any old garbage, the stuff still works, but I'm more focused on the marketing/sales side for once in my life than the code side. I do still make some concessions though, like I have a git hook on my server so I can just push, don't really want to be FTPing haha.

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Brian McNabola

Any update on how this went be interested to know pain points, blockers if you got 5 products currently on the go?

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Sean Walker

Yeah it went… ok, it was definitely harder for me to ship one "startup" a month due to the full time job and I also kind of took a road trip up the west coast of the US 🇺🇸 for 3 months. I did manage to do these things though:

outsidelist.carrd.co
outsidelist.com
hollabackapp.com
chipperapp.com <— this one isn't finished :(
allyourppl.com <— neither is this one
shippp.app
outsidelist.com v2 <— currently working on this one, will finally launch on PH in a few days