New Year, New Steve, New Plan, New Blog, Hopefully Not the Same Result
Goals
I've decided to make it my goal this year (2021) to take some piece of software I write and make it profitable. Not only am I going to do that, I'm going to relentlessly blog the whole thing.
From zero (well more like -10k if you count my debt) to some undefined endpoint. The goal is to unbiased / comical in my approach, as well as show what the process actually looks without all the hero / success worship. If its even possible.
Background
Why am I doing this? Easy - I like to write software, I enjoy coding, almost as much as I enjoy sleeping, playing counter strike, and hockey.
The only flaw in my plan is that no one is going to pay me to get up at noon, spoon my dogs for a little, fuck around with some new framework / try a new language until the deep hours of the morning.
So what if I just paid myself? Its possible that its white-guy-overconfidence but its always been a goal of mine to be start something. In fact I've made some apps before.
List of Failures:
Poscal (snap map before snap map was a thing)
scrpts.io an aggregate of security research / threat analysis reports
Simple Minded meditation, without the bullshit
Steve Kipp Hedge Fund (trading)
Net Profit: -97.54
Steve how do you live on -97.54 per year? Well luckily I'm actually fully employed as a software engineer.
The goal here is pretty lofty, and If you're here of your own freewill (I have not asked you to proofread) odds are you know just how easy a mix of podcasts, blogs (irony), and YouTube assholes can make it seem. I want this blog to be a quantifiable examination on how it all works, or if it works at all.
Science
At the end of each blog - I'm going to build a sort of tl;dr box where I attempt to break down what costs were associated with my progress. There are a few ways I can break down the costs
Literal cost in USD
Time spent in hours
Additionally in my tl;dr block I think I could include a short summary and maybe some keywords that will later let me do some NLP analysis.
Here is a quick idea of what a tl;dr block might look like (sure looks like YAML)
TLDR:
task: "watching German techno DJs on twitch while I write this"
timespent: 2 h
cost: 0
summary: "writing the initial blog post on how I plan to document everything"
keys: "blog, writing, planning"
It should be noted that I initially write all of these in markdown so parsing should be easier
Next post, we figure out what to build.