Hey, I'm Vince     I’m a self-taught developer that changed careers during the Covid... Tagged with productivity, beginners, learning, indiehacker.

Ankur Tyagi

Community Picks is a section on daily.dev where our community members share the most interesting and valuable content they've discovered online. From insightful articles to handy tools, every post is a gem curated by our dedicated coomunity. To contribute to Community Picks, you need to have at least 250 reputation points, ensuring that only active and trusted members can share their finds.

Community Picks

Vince, a self-taught developer who transitioned from education to web development during the Covid pandemic, shares his journey and philosophy about building and shipping apps. He emphasizes the importance of detaching from outcomes, stopping overlearning, copying others' work to save time, building one feature at a time, shipping early, and finishing projects even if they feel inadequate. These approaches help developers learn, grow, and maintain momentum in their work.

Why you should ship your app, even if it sucks

I only ship sucky code. BOSS LEVEL!

<img src="https://media.daily.dev/image/upload/s--M7RvqaGB--/f_auto/v1729406750/ugc/content_9446e9aa-f6f9-48ce-9260-4c08878874df" alt="image">
Erm…

Sonos followed this advice. Didn’t work well for them

Best way to learn is by doing &amp; being patient with yourself!
This article emphasizes that point perfectly.

This advice should not apply to start-ups or any size company for that matter.