Ranked Vote Flick Demo
Took a few moments tonight to record a short demo of RankedVote.app (Project name: Flick) tonight. Flick is a simple Elixir / Phoenix LiveView app that helps capture ranked votes. This project was built to help the …
Posts tagged “side-projects”
44 posts.
Circle Sign-Up Forms and Credit Card Fraud
A short recap of issues I ran into where people were using my Circle community sign-up form to validate stolen credit cards and Circle's lack of proper response.
Shutting Down ElixirClub
After six months, today I announced ElixirClub's closure.
Side Project Launch Cold Feet
The good news, that project is functionally complete. The bad news, I’m not sure I want to launch it.
A New Project: ElixirClub
ElixirClub is an outcome-oriented community that helps Elixir developers finish their side projects.
The Importance of Side Project Tiny Tickets
Deep work programming sessions are hard to come by. Find tiny ways to move your side project forward during the cracks of life.
Side Project Idea Audit
I keep a running list of project ideas in my notebook, and here is the shortlist I considered for the summer.
Filters Shaping My Next Project Idea
A collection of notes on what my next project should and should not be.
Shutting Down my Side Project Guildflow
I am shutting down Guildflow because after living in the meetup headspace for two years, I have a hard time seeing a pathway to some level of financial stability which could adequately compensate me for my time.
Retro Taxi: September 2021 Update
This post was originally written for my old ElixirFocus blog, and transfer here after its closure. A few months ago I kicked off the next sample project for this website, a team retrospective board built using Phoenix …
RetroTaxi Project Kickoff
This post was originally written for my old ElixirFocus blog, and transfer here after its closure. Phoenix by Example is all about crafting educational content extracted from open source example projects. Today I am …
Prioritizing Customer Feedback
It is important to be mindful of how you are spending your time. It can be very easy to fall into a cycle of reacting to things, feeling busy but not actually moving the needle of your business in the way you need to be.
Google Ad Numbers Don't Add Up
I tried to run some Google Ads but can't reconcile the numbers. I've been duped!
Video: Bartering With Other Developers on Side Projects (5m)
A short video talking about bartering your time with other developers to help add perspective to each other's side projects.
Challenging My Assumptions Through User Interviews
A short talk about how recent user interviews have challenged some of my assumptions about how Guildflow accounts should work.
Clubhouse is Now Guildflow
Just a quick note, that I have a new name for my meetup project. Say hello to Guildflow! If you’ve been following this project you may have seen some previous names like Campfire and Clubhouse and while I still like …
Video: Accountability via Masterminds (4m)
It can be hard to keep the momentum with a long term side project. I've found accountability help recently through a mastermind group.
Clubhouse Roadmap Tour
I'm using a public Trello board to keep track of my Clubhouse project's roadmap. Check it out. Feedback on the roadmap style and content itself very welcome.
Video: How I Decided to Build Clubhouse (6m)
Links: My Project: Club House Hosting
Video: Quick Thoughts on User Testing (5m)
Links My Project: Club House Hosting Book: Rocket Surgery Made Easy: The Do-It-Yourself Guide to Finding and Fixing Usability Problems My Recent Usability Test Script
Clubhouse Public Alpha
Today, after more than a year of side project progress, I finally am starting to share some of my progress regarding Clubhouse Hosting through the release of the first Public Alpha. My first commit (over a year ago): In …
Club House Hosting Dev Diary 2: A Tour of UI Sketches
The Project: Club House Hosting Show off some of the early UI sketches and then talk a little about plans for the week. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3Khn0nas24
Club House Hosting Dev Diary 1: Some Introductions
The Project: Club House Hosting Some basic introductions about me, about the project and about the timeline. See you next week! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fgi00EWZc0o
My New Project: Club House Hosting
Over the past few months I’ve been tinkering on a new project and it’s time to start to talking about it publicly. From the Development Journal: Club House Hosting is a new platform that will help group …
New Project: Group Leadership Club
Today I’d like to share a new project I’ve been working on called Group Leadership Club, Helping People Build Successful Technical Meetups. This site is dedicated to group leaders. Our goal is to help them …
Meet OwlDeck, a New Mac Presentation App for Programmers and Markdown Geeks.
Today I’m launching the teaser site for my new app, OwlDeck. OwlDeck is a new macOS presentation tool for programmers and geeks who need to display code and love Markdown. If you are interested in OwlDeck I’d love for …
Greetings, from the Ranch
One of the great perks of working at Big Nerd Ranch is that you are allowed to take one Big Nerd Ranch class a year. This week I’m taking the Front End Web class, and am really looking forward to it. At nights we are …
New Blog: Rested Experience
I’ve been working on a new Mac app for a month or so and it feels good to be building a product of my own again. I figured I’d blog the experience and hence, the new blog: Rested Experience. Feedback and retweets very …
Clash of the Coders: Day 0
One of the many interesting benefits I get working for Big Nerd Ranch is the opportunity to participate in many fun and unique events. One of the bigger ones is called Clash of the Coders. Clash of the Coders is an …
Rebooting My Professional Side Projects
It’s been a little over two years since I put Clickable Bliss, the company name for my personal projects, then self-employment, on hiatus after taking a job at DmgCtrl (which then turned into a job at Big Nerd Ranch). …
Encouraging Impactful User Content
I’m not one to do a ton of online product reviews but after CocoaLove I was asked to do one for the walking tour we took on Sunday. The site was TripAdvisor and from what I hear having good reviews there is really …
7 Minute Workout Featured on Apple.com
One of the apps I worked on, 7 Minute Workout, has been featured by Apple again. This time it’s part of the Strength TV ad which features a bunch of great fitness apps on iOS. In related new the DmgCtrl and Tonic merger …
GoldCards 1.1
GoldCards, a Hearthstone reference guide version 1.1 is live on the App Store. It is mostly a data update regarding the recent nerf of Unleash the Hounds though I did squeeze in a few other bug fixes.
Looking for feedback from Twitter users
I have an application I’ve been working on. I’d love to get some feedback from people to see if this is a real problem for Twitter users. To do so I’ve made a short survey. If you use Twitter and have a few min to spare …
Side Projects
Sorry for the dead air over the last few months. Things got a bit hectic at my job and I couldn’t seem to find the free time to post. On the plus side, things are starting to calm down. We’ve shipped some more software …
MegaManEffect now on GitHub
A few days ago I started to archive a lot of the Clickable Bliss website, replacing it with a smaller “hiatus” version. In the process I moved the MegaManEffect which lived primarily via a blog post and a GoogleCode …
Philly Startup Weekend
This weekend I got to take part in Philly Startup Weekend! Startup Weekend is a world wide organization dedicated to hosting events to help educate and inspire entrepreneurs. The goal is to launch a startup in 54 hours. …
Running Lean: Problem Interviews
The following post is part of a series of posts related to my new project, currently code named CB Reader. For the latest info, please consider joining the CB Reader mailing list. When I last posted, I introduced the …
CB Reader Intro Video and Feature Survey
Released earlier today, the new intro video starts to visualize some of the concepts I have in mind for CB Reader. I’ve also posted a feature survey that you can fill out to help me gauge what features are must have for …
More Google Reader Thoughts
What was Google Reader? To be clear, Google Reader was two things. First, it was a web-based RSS reading app. You’d visit the site, add subscriptions, browse subscriptions and read the articles that were aggregated. …
Running Lean: Building Our Lean Canvas
The following post is part of a series of posts related to my new project, currently code named CB Reader. For the latest info, please consider joining the CB Reader mailing list. It’s no secret I enjoyed book The Lean …
The End of Google Reader
Alas, as the prophecies foretold, Google Reader will be shutting down July 1st and with it hundreds if not thousands of apps that used Google Reader as their centralized RSS hub will be in trouble. Many of us saw this …
Announcing a New Project, CB Reader
Ah, the first public breath of a new project. So much potential and so much to do. Exciting times are afoot. From the teaser page: CB Reader (code name) is a new project that aims to help people centralize their many …
Book Review: The Lean Startup
With the sale of ProfitTrain complete, my schedule has room for a new project. There’s a handful of ideas I’m working through, but, before I jump into one, I think that now is a great opportunity to catch up with some …