How makers stay productive

2019 was a tough roller coaster year for me 👀

It started with the end of my studies & great hopes on an AI-powered software to optimize the quality of chemical production. Team split up in June though so I had to give up on that project. July was rebound time with a complete turnaround: I started selling toothbrushes online with two friends. Great hopes again. But didn't last long as we gave up on that project late September.

Nine months. Two failures. But still an ever-growing thirst to make it as a maker. So I had to set some ground rules with myself if I were to jump on another project:

• Love the problem not the solution
• Dream the dream but do it for the day-to-day journey
• Temper the ups to temper the downs

And then I went on to the next project… As a big IG user, it always frustrated me how poor the analytics are on stories and how you cannot segment your audience. While I always dreamt about how stories could be a new web paradigm - stories as single-purpose mini-websites. In the end, I decided to pursue that dream. Not because of how seducing it was to me. But because I knew how excited I would get along the journey!

Now, after month of hard work, my cofounders and I have a working beta of our product: a webapp to design IG-like stories you can share anywhere as a URL.

Check this out for a unique web-browsing experience (mobile-first UX) 👉https://beta.once.app/play/ck1w4grho00ih070849s3x9eg