Let's see how fast I can make $2117.91 USD. The goal is by end of day, Sunday March 18th.
I made it! 🎉
Income to earn: $0.00!
In the bank: $47.00.
Contracted but not yet invoiced: $2100.91.
I am live-blogging my entire process and thought patterns over the three day challenge here. Follow along!
Twitter: @richlitt
Email: richard@burntfen.com
Posts:
- Mon at 00:47 - How did it go?
- Sun at 19:14 - The crash
- Sun at 17:12 - Art
- Sun at 13:02 - Jekyll Scheduler builds on command
- Sun at 10:35 - Goal achieved
- Sun at 02:10 - Express, Heroku, and OAuth conquered
- Sat at 19:23 - At the bleeding edge
- Sat at 16:56 - Getting Probot working
- Sat at 15:54 - Providence at the cafe
- Sat at 15:14 - Business models for Jekyll Scheduling
- Sat at 14:48 - Negative feedback
- Sat at 14:35 - Scheduled Jekyll Posts
- Sat at 09:56 - Morning reflections
- Sat at 00:59 - First day post mortem
- Sat at 00:21 - Better navigation
- Sat at 00:03 - Working blog
- Fri at 22:56 - Setting up a blog
- Fri at 18:06 - Adventure branding
- Fri at 16:03 - Patreon Post
- Fri at 15:36 - Afternoon goals
- Fri at 13:28 - Hunger
- Fri at 13:06 - Marketing this project
- Fri at 12:40 - Machine Learning?
- Fri at 11:54 - Probot
- Fri at 11:42 - First Client!
- Fri at 11:13 - Small notes and Buffer
- Fri at 10:33 - Reputation
- Fri at 10:32 - First Contact
- Fri at 10:19 - The First Tweet
- Fri at 10:12 - Introduction
This project is maintained by RichardLitt
I went home, turned on Star Trek, ate some leftover roast, and had a wee meditation session / nap. Now, I feel a lot better.
I don’t like my approach to this entire thing. I feel that it is too adhoc, and not targeted. This is one of the reasons that 2tothe20th, another similar project I had (without the debt goal) a few years ago failed. I shouldn’t fall into this trap, but I did.
I also felt a bit rejected by the guy on Twitter not following up. I should have seen that coming, and that’s the risk of reaching out in that way. I can’t melt iron to make tools without sometimes getting burned. Moving right along.
What’s next for me? Well, I want to choose a particular project. I’m not sure what that is. But I also do need to get through my emails and my general projects this afternoon, and to get to my newsletters. I’m going to go and market this whole project now by dropping it in my various communities (like I mentioned in Marketing This Project) now, and then slash and burn my inbox while I let comments filter in.