Episode 60
Jumpstarting Your Side Project With Dicko Sow
April 24th, 2019
35 mins 14 secs
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Jumpstarting Your Side Project With Dicko Sow
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Dicko Sow: Founder of Yodi Naturals.
Summary
Our guest this week is Dicko Sow. Dicko is a software developer at a technical consultancy, but recently she has been spending her time building out a side project called Yodi Naturals. We talk about how she chose the project, how important it was to plan the project, the technical decisions, and what Dicko learned putting together the launch page. If you’re trying to decide whether to try a side project, this episode has some good information about how to put that together.
Notes
01:58 - Wanting to do a Side Project; Deciding on Said Side Project
03:59 - Yodi Naturals
05:56 - Getting Started (Mentally)
07:50 - Planning and Prioritization of Minimum Viable Product Features
13:25 - Name Origin
16:08 - Getting Started (Technically)
18:45 - Using React
20:26 - Working with AWS
22:24 - Decoupling React and Rails and Releasing Features
23:51 - Design
26:31 - Learning as the Project Comes Together
27:29 - Managing Search and Tag Functionality
31:18 - Recipe Curation
31:52 - Launching the Launch Page; Shipping Things