przybytniewski

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Founder of startuputils.com - Software Engineer with a dream of building a successful startup.
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Comment · 2 years ago
not sure it's okay to have microsoft azure as your logo in the navbar? you're not from the microsoft, right? it may be misleading, better use own identity :/
Comment · 2 years ago
Hi, Peter, founder of the app here!

As a Technical Founder, I lacked the design skills to create beautiful Startup Visuals like logo, banner, and social media graphics for new projects, so I made a tool to automate it!

The idea? Get a Logo, Favicon, Banner, OG Image, and Social Media Graphics customized to your project, in minutes.

Features I built for the MVP I launched today:

1/ Startup Visuals Pack Generator

Get all the graphics in minutes, customized to your business style.

- Logo - Favicon - Banner / OG image for social media - Social Media Graphics

2/ Beautiful Screenshots Editor

Create outstanding Screenshots with all the paddings, rounded corners, backgrounds, etc.

- 1000+ icons - 200+ backgrounds - Easy to customize - Reusable Templates and Presets

No design skills required.

Stop wasting time on next Startup Visuals and focus your mind on actually building the business

Let me know your thoughts, whether it may be useful for your next Side Project?

Comment · 2 years ago
Hi, Peter here As a non-native English, I lacked the vocabulary to express myself fluently like many of you here. I was using only basic, common words I learned in school I tried learning new words, but. failed.

So I built LanguageBeast: a platform to Learn English vocabulary that matters to enrich your vocabulary through synonyms, antonyms, and examples for common English words.

I'd love to hear your feedback on whether it may help improve your English vocabulary.

Comment · 3 years ago
Estimates != 100% project time spent.

I'd say the main issue is misunderstanding of concept we are planning between business and tech people. Those groups think so differentely. We use Planning Poker tool - https://scrumhub.it/ for each user story, but still there area projects unestimated with strongly extended timeline compared to initial estimates. But on the other hands mostly it happens when business add new features, change requirements and the wheel comes full circle, we do retro and it is what it is :)

Comment · 3 years ago
We could simplify the article to a sentence: be good and clear in communication.

That's for sure valuable skill which gives you advantage over other engineers, or to say people in general :)

Comment · 3 years ago
You can start with notes of problems you meet daily or ideas you come up with. If you want to pursue someone else ideas, most likely you won't have the determination to build things for years, fail and learn from these mistakes.

It takes time, tears and sweat and a lot of failures to actually build something successful, it won't be a one night sucess from idea taken from someone.

Comment · 3 years ago
It's painful, but a worth failure lesson. I started building my own side-projects. First took months to build while learning new technologies. Previous one took a year to actually code all these fancy features. Added payments, billing pages, etc. Then noone bought the subscription :)

Anyway I learned so much along the way and they say you have to spend thousands of hours to actually become successful in one area. Now I've built a project on 2/3 weeks. I give it a few weeks, then move to a new idea to find a gold mine and start the monetization.

Comment · 3 years ago
@annie_muss I'm curious, are those ideas something you'd like to share publicly with people? I had an idea to build a service, where users could post their "side-project idea", as they don't want / don't have time etc to build them and are okay with others using these ideas to build something meaningful. I feel it could become a place for active startup builders to connect, a place for creativity.
Comment · 3 years ago
Great feedback, thanks! I'll consider those things, but first I'll need to rethink whether the idea of developing more features just to do more research is good or better if I switch to a new idea instead, to save some time.

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