Starting a side project as a creative studio
Running side projects while doing client work is possible, fun, and valuable. Here are our lessons learned while building Hellotime.
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Running side projects while doing client work is possible, fun, and valuable. Here are our lessons learned while building Hellotime.
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Also, how today’s biggest consumer products got their first 1,000 users
Today’s bug: I tried to store a UTF-8 string in a MariaDB “utf8”-encoded database, and Rails raised a bizarre error: This is a UTF-8 client and a UTF-8 server, in a UTF-8 database with a UTF-8…
Considering every startup confronts this question at some point, I was surprised by how little has been written about it. Particularly anything actionable. So I decided to do my own digging. I spent the past month personally reaching out to founders, scouring interviews, and tapping the Twitterverse. Below, you’ll find first-hand accounts of how essentially every major consumer app acquired their earliest users, including Tinder, Uber, Superhuman, TikTok, Product Hunt, Yelp, and over a dozen more. Enjoy!