Shipping a side project in a weekend: what actually matters

2026-10-27来源 dev.to GoEnglish

I've shipped a lot of side projects, and most of them died. The ones that survived had a few things in common.

What mattered:

  • A single painful problem I personally had
  • The ugliest possible UI that still worked
  • One deploy command

What didn't matter:

  • The perfect stack
  • A landing page before the product
  • Tests for the first version (controversial, I know)

The last one I'd qualify: no tests on day one, but write one as soon as real users show up.

My current side project is a small tool that turns markdown notes into a static site. TypeScript and Go, one Postgres database, one deploy. It's not clever, but it's mine.

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