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matt swanson
April 22, 2012
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Anatomy of a Weekend Project
Tips and tricks for successful Weekend Projects from a serial weekend hacker
matt swanson
April 22, 2012
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Transcript
Weekend Project Matt Swanson @_swanson // swanson.github.com Anatomy @AskedRelic of
a
It’s Friday night, what am I doing? Hacking.
Hacking on... ‣ Script to email me when a movie
is on Netflix Instant ‣ Fantasy sports for Twitter app ‣ WYSIWYG editor for Jekyll blog
Taxonomy
Scratch an Itch ‣ Why doesn’t this exist? ‣ I’m
lazy, let’s go scripting! e.g. indyhackers-api
github.com/swanson/indyhackers-api indyhackersapi.herokuapp.com/events
Try Out New Tech ‣ Throw-away prototype ‣ Exploratory dev
e.g. Android TDD
github.com/sep/planning-poker-android
Make Something Fun ‣ Sometimes we just need to build
something really pointless e.g. abe.heroku.com
github.com/swanson/abe abe.heroku.com
Tips & Tricks
Manage Scope ‣ Weekend => 48 hours ‣ Realistic =>
4-8 hours ‣ Expectations? ‣ One-off or side-project ‣ Go for Easy Wins
Fail and Throw It Out ‣ Pickup tips/shortcuts ‣ Fear
of failing => never start ‣ My GitHub is a graveyard of failed projects (and I’m okay with that)
Get stoked! You built something cool. It’s not pretty or
polished. But you’ve actually CREATED SOMETHING (and that’s more than most people can say)
So what now?
“Neo, sooner or later you’re going to realize just as
I did that there’s a difference between knowing the path and walking the path.” — Morpheus, The Matrix
Carve out a weekend on your calendar to: Scratch an
Itch Try Out New Tech Make Something Fun Questions? Comments? Let’s talk more? Hit me up: @_swanson