This thread is for anyone working on personal projects to share their progress, and hold themselves somewhat accountable to a group of peers. We can coordinate weekly standup type meetings if their is interest.
Post your project, your progress from last week, and what you hope to accomplish this week.
Last week's thread was quite a bit less active than the original one, but I think this is an idea worth continuing, so here we are. Though one thing that might be worth discussing is the pacing of the thread. If there's not so much activity, maybe we can go from weekly to monthly, and if anyone want's to give weekly reports, they can do so under their project's top level comment. Let me know what you think!
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Last week was insanely productive. Had to get an application in for an accelerator. I have the end2end demo hosted and working.
Still building my 'AI moderator'. It is pretty close to ready. I'd be happy to offer it pro-bono for people on TheMotte. (Btw, does TheMotte have a moderation endpoint?)
Learnt JS and React and got my first really 'professional' looking website up and running. Lowkey, frontend development is rather straight forward in framework land. Claude helped a lot, but also, React has templates for everything. Love it. I'm surprised by how easy deployment has become. Firebase and similar tools give you fully working solutions for DB, auth, hosting, CI/CD straight out of the box with generous free tiers. Didn't try cursor, but upload your whole codebase to Claude is working remarkably well. I've lived in ML land for too long.
For the first time, I feel like I could run a 1 person company and perform every part of the job - Sales, BD, Design, FE, BE, ML, Deployment. Ofc, 24 hours is too little time in a day to do everything.....but the fact that it is possible to do by one person is a huge unlock.
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