Woodworking/Carpentry. As much as I like writing code and working in Product, it'd be nice to work on something tangible. It's so much easier to give someone a physical product that (for the most part) is 'done' when it's handed over, and there's also the knowledge base that remains mostly intact and isn't continuously iterated like it does in programming.
This is one of the things I’m doing. I’ve always been useless with my hands but it’s a whole lot of fun gradually learning even the most basic of things. I have a house to renovate but no time limit and gradually learning one little skill makes other harder ones become that bit less intimidating.
Looks like he focused on promptbase when that became successful. There was a daily blog for promptbase at some point that had some promising revenue numbers.
It's cool watching someone I knew at uni build something that's useful for so many people, especially seeing him pop up on Hacker News from time to time!
Maybe start by looking at a small problem/time sink you're currently facing and build something around that? For example, I wrote a small script in Python to automatically scrape jobs in the past 24 hours when I was applying for a new role (It return the Company, Job Name, and Job Link).
I usually just pick a very small problem that I have and start building around that. For example, right now I spent too much time reading HN/Reddit and not enough time studying for an exam coming up, so I'm thinking about making a chrome extension that prompts me to answer a random question from a bank every few minutes otherwise it'll lock me out of whatever I'm reading.
Picking a simple stack (e.g Browser Extensions are underrated imo) also helps with building something small and quick.
Someone who I get a lot of inspiration from is https://tinyprojects.dev/. I've been reading his blog for quite a while and it's definitely kicked my brain into gear with small projects.
I created a simple browser extension to help me organise my links. It solves a problem I had where there was a middle ground between keeping a tab open to read later and saving something to my bookmarks.
It's under 200 lines of JS, not available on the Webstore and not complicated (or even well-written) at all, but it's a nice feeling to use a little piece of software I wrote that's purely customised to my specific use case(s).
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! I was a lurker for over ten years but recently made an account. I've always learnt something new from here, and not just related to computing. I owe a significant part of my career to some of the ideas that were sparked from reading links on HN over the years and I've grown fond of this site and the community that sustains it.
Still has a pretty active community, and the gameplay revolves around programming your 'Leek' to fight other leeks in a battle-bot type situation. The language you write the code in isn't python-like (it's called LeekScript), but it's easy to pick up.
