Then I came up with the project name. So I started coding.
Yeah, I had to secure the .com before any code was written.
The next day, I wrote a demo of hardcoded html and shared it with the world.
https://mastodon.social/@dansup/99877423794532057
I kept the name secret until it was announced a month later, along with the first version.
The morale of the story: build something that people want, not what you want.
It's not easy. But they will come.
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