I made a list of open startups with their metrics (mrr and customers). There already exist a few directories that does it but the problem was they were static and no updated for a while. So I made an extensive list of open startups collected from twitter, baremetrics, indiehackers and other websites. Also the metrics are updated daily.
Remote Letter is a curated newsletter about remote work. Since a lot of companies are moving to remote work temporarily or permanently, this newsletter can be handy for employees looking for news, products and content remated to remote work, productivity, travel, etc. This is the 7th issue of remote letter.
I would love to be a professional chess player. I have been playing chess since I was 10. I have always been good at problem solving and maths. I didn't took chess seriously as I didn't see anyone playing it to earn a living, I didn't even know something like that exists.
Later in college, I won back to back chess tournament and with just a few days of practice. That's when I realized I might had a chance have I taken chess seriously since my early days in school.
I started a lot of side projects like many and didn't finish most. For me the secret of finishing a side project was to start a small one, something that I can finish within a weekend or even less, a few hours.
My completed side projects have been the one that took me less than a week. Some of them was less than 100 lines of code.
HN Deck uses Hacker News api to display all tabs in a single page. The interface is inspired from tweetdeck. Code for this app is here https://github.com/sagunsh/hndeck
When I was a junior, I had similar problems. I can think of ideas, even solve problems and fix bug but when it comes to building something bigger, I was afraid. My problem the entire time was if soemthing goes horribly wrong. What if the data we are collecting is not stored? What if the code I am pushing is not properly documented? For me it was the fear of making mistake.
In case of simple bug fixes and minor feature addition, my supervisor would be checking everything so I didn't have to worry. For builidng something bigger, no one would be checking everything line by line. I was own my own and afraid to push my code. My team helped me overcome that fear by showing it's okat to make mistakes and nothing happens if you do that. Make mistake, test code, fix bug... it is an iterative process and nothing to worry.
This might not be suitable for someone from Europe or USA but for some one living in a 3rd workd country, I think it is more than okay to get paid around $30 per hour.