The new year vibe has already settled in and people are getting more drawn into reality. That's when I exactly think this is the best time to make new year resolution. By starting on my own timeline, I know I write this not because of FOMO, but I aim for real progress, instead.
My 2024 Resolution
I managed to simple and ambitious enough goal in one sentence:
Ship one product per end of month.
This goal beautifully encompasses all things I aspire to accomplish.
- Open opportunities from various ways
- Focusing on small set of tasks instead of overthinking technical stuff that lead to self-inflicted scope creep (that's my bane, yeah)
- Experience journey beyond coding
- More portfolio is nice bonus as well
Details, Details, and Details
Scope
Then, isn't it daunting and overly ambitious? Yes, when we think about "product" as a set of solutions working seamlessly and displayed beautifully. I define output product below to set expectations:
- the product solves one specific real world problem
- the product is deployed on internet
- the product interacts with human users, and optionally with machine users
This might be close to MVP, but not yet. The goal is personal growth, not user feedback or financial. Even in this setup, I will have total freedom to build with Svelte in January and Solid.js in February, and so on. I do not focus on product valuation. However, it is totally possible that output product from this process is further developed as MVP or, with with sufficient resources and time, marketable product.
How Does This Help DEV Users?
In addition to shipping a prodcut per month, I will also share my journey on DEV about my problem-finding process, my design process, my journey of overcoming obstacles. Hopefully it will help community members.
Wish me luck, and I hope everyone has a blessed and eventful 2024 🎊🎊🍾 🚀
Top comments (2)
Love the ambition, good luck!
Thanks a lot, really appreciate it 👍