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Ask HN: How to Finish a Side Project?

I studied CS in college and for a few years I had this project of building an app to crawl and visualize the intellectual web (starting small with the Twitter API for example; and asking feedback on programming help Discord servers for quick reply). However, I never managed to keep consistency in the development of the app, despite of being mostly committed (I don't have many responsabilities or priorities).

I feel like I have a disease to focus at this point, but I also feel like most developers can't ship a useful solo project and it recomforts me.

I only manage to focus in the evening or when I have somebody to talk with about the app or when somebody on a forum can help me to fix a bug.

So when you are blocked because the side project path is not clear, what do you do?

13 points frozencell 4 years ago 13 comments

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