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|Made by One
January 12th, 2011
I’ve been hanging out on the Hacker news site from YCombinator. It is a great source of information and inspiration for anyone starting their own business.
The folks from YCombinator, who have funded some awesome startups, put a strong emphasis on funding teams of founders, rather than solo creators. Now I’ve been solo creating for a number of years, along with a few team projects, but the recent launch of Facto.me, I even blogged about it, got me thinking on the subject of solo versus team.
If you have all the necessary skills, being a solo creator cannot be beaten for time to market for your MVP release. Larger projects can benefit from a division of labor, but most MVP releases are small enough that this isn’t the case. Having co-founders can be useful to bounce ideas off, but I’ve found my network of friends is good for that, even if they’re not working on the project.
In the ended I decided solo creators should be celebrated! They shoulder all the risk for creating something where nothing existed, with nobody else to blame if things go wrong. Even if they do fail, they are a great way to learn for your next project solo or not.
Rather than just posting a blog entry listing a few solo creators with links to their works, I decide instead to build my first interview based site. Made by One is a series of interviews with solo creators about the creator and projects they have created.
I posted about the site to Hacker news, and was pleasantly surprised with the response. I wasn’t sure how many solo creators I would be able to interview, but now have a enough leads for about a years worth of weekly interviews.
Visit the site, follow us on Twitter feed, or subscribe to the RSS feed and you’ll never miss our great interviews.
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2010 in Review
December 31st, 2010
Looking back it turns out that 2010 was dominated by the day job way more than I had anticipated.
I’m very proud of the work I did at the day job, but lots of long hours at work left little time to spend tinkering in the Garage.
This years most significant work ended up being a relaunch rather than a launch. The rebuild of Episode List, took something that I originally built in 2001 and let fall into disrepair, with declining visitors, and turned into something that has continued to grow, in both visitors and revenue month over month.
I hope 2011 brings much more garage time.
I plan to refresh and relaunch a number of existing projects, as well add some new projects. I’m focusing on projects (web applications) that help get more done during the day. I’ll be documenting my plans for 2011 in another post.
For now I hope everyone had a great 2010, and wish everyone continued success for 2011.
Posted in Business, My-Launches, Sitenews
Launch: Most Cheated
January 13th, 2009
Cheat sheets are a very convenient way of remembering syntax or shortcuts for your favorite language, framework or application.
Your favorite web design or development blog will have no doubt posted a list cheat sheets for you to use, Most Cheated takes this one step further providing a database of links to cheat sheets.
The cheat sheets are collected into 5 main categories: Design, Development, Server Software, Application and other, with tagging for further classification. The format of the cheat sheet is also noted.
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