Hey David, thanks for taking the time for the feedback. I am still figuring out what this will eventually look like but with the summer here and things open, I am enjoying playing and trying it out.

I wrote a Github app with "opinions" that helps me achieve this. If anyone else is interested, hit me up and I would help you set it up :)

Hi Jacob,

Thanks for writing this. I have been thinking of an idea that can be a feature in your app. "Batching newsletters", essentially, controlling the delivery time of multiple newsletters so they can be batched.

Here is a super rough spec of what I mean by "batching newsletters" www.notion.so/zoid/Batch-mana…

@zaheerbaloch Did it work?

Thanks Cody, Marc and Stefan for the answer, let me try to answer each of you separately 🙏

Cody:

The key to everything is staying motivated and positive.

I agree, for my current side projects, mainly readbot.app and languagelearners.club, I did that for myself and before the payment system and other stuff it literally took me 1-2 days to build the thing (that satisfied 99% of my requirements), rest is some hassle aka putting it out there. But I get what you are coming at.

I do the "getting up early" part for personal development/other things that I care about stuff (miracle morning), not side projects, but the same idea applies.

Relax and accept that things will take longer than if you worked at it for 8 hours straight like a full-time job.

💯 having been a freelancer for a long time of my career, I am particularly good with software estimates, except for side projects where I have an expectation of shipping more stuff faster. Luckily, I am not off by much but there is some bias in me that side hustle should be faster.

Cutting corners

It came off wrong, I exactly meant building lesser features, readbot for example is a telegram bot in place of an android, ios, chrome extension app because I wanted to build a prototype for myself. But the USP is best parsing of anything out there. I am building less features but delivering more value. Cutting corners was = less platforms etc, less features.

Overall, your answer aligns completely with my thinking, happy to get some validation on my thought process 🙌

Marc:

Parkinson's law is what I had in mind when I wrote "Be even more aggressive than a startup in cutting corners to ship quickly". In small startups you move fast but you have room for errors but in a side project, an error and a revision might lead to reduced motivation (in certain circumstances, what I mean is, errors are costlier wrt motivation, good in terms of scale/reach)

Stefan:

That is what I am trying these days, sometimes it gets a bit tiring, I don't want to be afraid of letting go of a streak but I get the idea of consistency, reminds me of (siimland.com/goals-vs-systems/) 🙏

Thanks everyone for sharing their thoughts 🙌