Aaron Bailey
@aaronbailey
Nice, thanks! I've seen those events (and was at Frontiers last year). Now that I've been accepted in the App Directory, I feel like there are some best practices that I'll write up and post here soon.
Start with a problem you’re having in the space. What about cryptos annoys you or takes time that shouldn’t. Then solve that problem. If you haven’t found a problem, you aren’t deep enough in the crypto world yet.
^ What I was about to type. It's really hard to follow the discussion sometime.
Personal project for a proof-of-concept web app that I'm considering launching. It's a one-page output of a feed of user-generated posts/updates. Depending on rate, I'd have budget for 8-10 hours. (I used to manage a digital agency, so I'm well versed in working with designers and developers.)
I really like carrd.co for building quick landing pages.
What do you mean by “fake” buy button? What should that button do?
What are you doing instead?
Being more stressed at dayjob.exe than I used to be. That's probably the biggest effect.
And on the sidehustle side, I spend a lot of time shipping things that maintain the status quo or aren't working as well as they used to (in part because I'm no longer as productive at them as I used to).
Ultimately I don't spend enough time shipping things that would get me to the next level. And maybe I don't even know what those are. It's hard to tell.
It's a hard spot to be in, having a day job and trying to ship. Perhaps you need a week off from shipping (and the day job?); or perhaps you can reset expectations to 30 minutes before or after day job for shipping for a few months while focusing on de-stressing the day job? Sorry if this seems preachy... just some things that came to mind. I've been there and it's not fun.
Are the steps needed to get to the next level well defined, or are they only ideas? I tend to think a lot about things but until I spend some time putting down some actionable steps I don’t do nothing if not thinking about the same thoughts again and again
Having actionable steps help me jump quickly in the work and this often help getting in the zone and “unlock” situations where I feel blocked.
I don’t know, probably it is just me, but keeping an idea “vague” it leaves me in this strangely comfortable zone where I think: “I have this great idea that when I want to do and will change things for me”, but in the end I never start doing it...
Depends on what you mean by well defined.
Do I know which specific action will guarantee the results I want? Of course not.
Do I have a pretty solid understanding of what needs to happen to have a good chance of getting the results? Yep.
I don't mean this.
Ok, it seems the kind of zone that I mentioned before, now, what's the first step? e.g. Making the first 5 episode as "pilot" for learn while pooping? Make the landing page? Pooping with a stopwatch to understand what will be your limit constraint? Whatever is, just do it ® .
If you don't know exactly what the first step, this is probably the real problem, you didn't seriously wrap your head around this idea...