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I’ve mastered this. I’ve finished 12+ projects in the last year. 1 even made money.

How? My projects are tiny. If you’re building solo, you have to tackle projects reasonable for a solo dev.

I primarily build chrome extensions because the simplest ones can be finished in one night, and the hardest a month or two. It’s frontend only work, so you minimise the project surface area. I’ve only been building them for a year but I finish all of them.

And I focus on getting an MVP out, and only polish if I can be bothered.

Now that I’ve mastered the finish, I’m moving on to different projects:

- API only projects - Scripts - NextJS projects (simple backend) - static pages



That's sound advice, but not foolproof, because of two things:

(1) what seems, at first, to be a tiny project can turn out to be a big project.

(2) with the right mindset, what seems at first to be a large project can turn into a tiny project.

And the confusing thing, when trying to reason about this and work more effectively, is that it isn't completely clear to what extent (1) and (2) aren't the same thing.


1) this is true, I’ve run into this!

2) I’m yet to run into this


What kind of Chrome extensions? Genuinely curious – it would never occur to me to build one.


I’ve built all the following:

- Ad blocker/s

- Site CSS overrides

- Salary revealer for job sites

- API blocker

- Extended devtools

- AI powered UI design feedback tool [0]

… and many more

[0] - https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/ui-copilot/hgaldpfd...


Monetized much?


I tried monetising one extension but no one liked it lol, the extension was shite! But I sold one of my popular extensions (hundreds of thousands of users)




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