I've used a Google Sheet exactly like this. Highlighted weekends and laid out with all days of the year. Export as PDF can fit on a single sheet of paper. But I also print it out on a huge paper and hang it up for my family. [https://bettersheets.co/bigyear]
Wife and I started a 3d printing business. We just started a couple of months ago and have put our items in a few retail stores. Our goal is not to do this super fast but more like supplemental income. Also its fun to print stuff for ourselves. I already designed a finger mini golf game and may start to build my own board games out of 3d printed parts.
So I want to build up 3d modeling skills.
I am not surprised but its much much slower to get a physical product business going than just writing some code and launching.
This sounds very cool! Can you share a link to your company website, or are you only selling on eBay or Etsy? I think 3D printed stuff can make great creative gifts.
"The experimental cohort outperforms the control group with statistical significance in comprehending potent ideational constructs encompassing representation, algorithms, and hardware/software interplay. Conversely, the control group performs better in grasping the debugging concept than their experimental counterparts. "
But when I read further it's that the assessment had to do with a seesaw, which the control group had a literal seesaw they can use before and understand. While the experimental group was learning more abstract debugging.
So from this I think I'll use more in-person items and building literal things that have a problem, to teach debugging. Perhaps some kind of marble run. And discuss with him what he thinks will happen (the expectation) and the difference between that and what actually happens.
I don't think it matters much.
Sometimes I do consulting where I'm coding at the same time as the client is there with me. There's lots of little questions and tons of testing involved as I do coding in Google Apps Script in Google Sheets. And I'll quickly say "oh I think ChatGPT can figure this out faster than me" and just prompt it at the same time. Then copy paste and edit and figure out if it's right code for that part.
Not only do they not care, they think it's pretty cool that I can essentially save them an hour here or there.
What I would like is a list of creators, bloggers, youtubers etc, who have a solid audience and are seeking to mention others. For example I make a google sheets tutorial youtube channel. Sometimes I make a video that I genuinely could be featured by others and reacted to, and discussed... but I don't have the list of those to reach out to. I'm building it myself. like you said, in a spreadsheet. But there's no earning credits or trading. Wouldn't mind going through a list of people who are interested in trading exposure.
I used to ask Stripe Atlas for this kind of service. Because they made it so easy to spin up a company in 2 weeks, I thought it would be helpful to shut down a company too. But alas they haven't done it.
In general it was about $2,500 the last time I did it and only really needed a Lawyer to help file the final taxes and submit the paperwork to shut down to Delaware. Will be different if you have a company set up in a different state. Financial and Legal is the only thing you need to focus on. You can literally shut down the operations yourself.
The key issue that I found is that there is no emotional support. It's hard mentally, spiritually, and ultimately emotionally. Sometimes it's hard to actually go through the motions, the actions, the steps you need to do.
At least the legal part must be handled. You can literally keep the "company" as a personal asset and try to run it as a side-project or a hobby if you'd like. Many bootstrappers and indiehackers do that when they start a business.
I found a good support network of people who understand what you're going through can help. A simple telegram group, or whatsapp group, or even an online forum here should be able to help you with the emotional roller coaster. Feel free to express more about what you're going through and others might be able to share insights or just wallow in pity along with you.
The most important mindset change was not to think of "Making" as something different than "Launching". I saw a startup school video that basically said you should Launch and then Launch again and Launch again, and again and again... I quit making a side project and then launching it. I just sat down and wrote out a launch list. One of those items was to make the thing useable. Some might claim this is like MVP idea. but that's a whole other thing. This "Always Be Launching" is really wrapping the product up in the hype from the outset.
I've started to do things like just email my list and explain that I'm considering making something. what questions or concerns would they have about it. And I consistently ask my email list if there's something I can improve about something I already launched.
The Book Launch by Jeff Walker helped put into plain terms the actual questions and how I go about pre-launching something I haven't made yet. It's helped me build about three or five new courses very confidently because I had been asked a bunch of questions from people who would go on to take that course.
How is launching impacting your commitment to your project? Once I built an MVP, I'm typically satisfied and move on (even though I convinced myself for weeks that my ambition would reach well beyond building an MVP)
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