The problem is that every time I travel to a new place it’s hard to figure out which parts of the city to go. Because for the first time ever, I have every single moment logged until launch. You don’t knows what something can be come until you ship! Or grow by itself to become a billion dollar IPO’ing company. Or get acquired for a few million dollars by a big company. And in case of startups, that tiny little dysfunctional app might become a $120,000/year bootstrapped business. But then with iteration it becomes something. The first version of anything always sucks. You might think “well, I could never do that”, but you forget that Uber, or Airbnb, or Google also started as tiny little apps one day. When you hear about a successful startup in the news, they’re probably already a few years in and you have no idea how it got started. I’ve always wanted to record the entire process from building a small side project that then turned into a successful launch and then potentially into an actual business. (This post is gigantic, click through to build, launch, post-launch and conclusion.) While recording the entire process on Twitch and Twitter. #FREE ONLINE FLIPBOOK CREATOR REDDIT CODE#I show how I built a mini startup called Hoodmaps in public from the first line of code to a functioning web app that I got to the frontpage of Reddit with over 300,000 people using it.
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