What are the most defining moments in your maker journey?

Hi Aaron! Nice to hear it! As for me it was starting the Sales process of my product. That was the time when I felt all the Lean principles on myself and have seen what are the steps to succeed.

Congrats :) One milestone was when i first got product responsibility in a job - and could go full circle (idea > vision > mvp > sales support > first big customer wins). After this product I knew, entrepreneurship it is 😻

Getting on a bunch of national tv news shows being interviewed about my website Sold an ebook about the whole story. Did pretty well 😉

Actually shipping a project (for the product hunt makers festival 2.0)

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for me, it's keeping in mind what is going to have the biggest impact in the business and not just keeping busy. It's very easy to go through a checklist of a million things. But, how many of those are really going to matter? What are the main levers of your business and how are you pushing those? That's where the magic is. Do that frequently and especially when you don't feel like it.

Using Twitter! I reached out to this PM on Twitter after reading her Medium post that got retweeted by the likes of Garry Tan. Because of that one DM, we were able to seed Tinyask with some early content and had people reaching out wanting to take our MVP for a spin. We've since made a lot of progress product and distribution wise - feel free to check out https://tinyask.co !

As a software engineer, I always like to create projects to process what I was learning. One of those projects was an app, and I put it on Play Store to learn how to to it. After 1 week of it with only a few downloads (mine and friends) I felt bad about it, I really wanted more and that was the spark.

Its interesting to create products and solutions as a company or startup which turns into a system that is crucial to solve problems. That big system needs lot of consistent efforts from lot of people to build and maintain the entire system. However turning point into my maker journey is when I explored simple product design using Work flows and components like Excel sheet, airtable database, notion database and no code tools to develop products. These products are quick to develop with in a day or two. It also requires smart analysis and understanding to figure out the most simple solution to a problem. I am planning to build 50+ products like this by the end of the year.

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