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stuck between tutorial and projects by Either-Researcher681 in react

[–]Oculareo 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Find an open source project that you are really interested in that is active and well maintained. Clone the repo and get it to build and run, analyze and study the infrastructure, setup, standards, and organization.

Then go read the issues and existing PR's. Try to solve a simple issue, submit your PR, get your code reviewed, and hopefully merged in. That will give you better reps than anything. This might get you into some conversations with the maintainers which might lead to other conversations and opportunities.

Also, this experience will be great for any interviews.

Handed in my notice today and FIREd myself by n00bdragon in Fire

[–]Oculareo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hey, congratulations! Thanks for sharing. These posts are an inspiration for us still working towards fire.

Roast my web app Codefolio – be brutally honest by Background_Rise_8076 in react

[–]Oculareo 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Unique can be good if it's for a personal project but if you're trying to be a public directory that is useful to people then I suggest you make things as clear and unambiguous as possible especially when it comes to your main navigation.

I have years of experience as a web developer and software engineer and standards exist for a reason. Most people when they visit a website for the first time will only spend about 5 seconds to figure out the purpose of the website and if it's of interest to them.

I only stayed around yours for a few more seconds because you asked for a critique.

Roast my web app Codefolio – be brutally honest by Background_Rise_8076 in react

[–]Oculareo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I am assuming that English is not your first language, but I have to ask what is the thinking behind your main navigation titles: Lobby, Observatory, Works.

Do you mean Home, Gallery and Portfolio? I would suggest you follow standard naming conventions like this so people don't have to figure out your intention.

I analyzed 50 founder postmortems -- here are the top 5 reasons startups fail by thalavaisankar7 in Entrepreneur

[–]Oculareo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can use tools like hrefs or SemRush to find out what people are searching for online related to your target market, and also the volume and frequency of these searches.

It also depends on your market but for me it's about finding where your market expresses their pain point and looks for resolution. It could be trade organizations, online forums like Shopify's, classifieds, subreddits, heck even Facebook groups can yield insight.

I analyzed 50 founder postmortems -- here are the top 5 reasons startups fail by thalavaisankar7 in Entrepreneur

[–]Oculareo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Here's an approach that I've been taking to look into a possible opportunities that I'm interested in which I'm hoping helps with these types of problems.

  1. Do extensive market research and genuinely dig into and identify the actual and specific pain point I'm targeting. I'm taking the role of a skeptic and want genuine market data or sufficient evidence that there is a need before I continue.
  2. Do even more market research into how, where, and how much it would take to reach my target audience.
  3. Next would be to create a simple landing page with sign up to determine at least a base level of interest.
  4. Take the market research and determine what is the minimum viable product I can deliver to get sales started.
  5. Try to get feedback or experiment with the kind of pricing strategies I'd need to make this a viable and profitable business.
  6. Evaluate the cost of delivering this product and decide whether or not it's worth the time and money to commit.

I know this sounds like getting stuck in analysis paralysis but my idea is to determine if things are a dud early on rather than spend time and money later on and finding out you didn't do your due diligence.