Solo: Building Successful Web Apps By Your Lonesome
summary
Claims that solo web apps succeed by following three concrete rules be good be fast don't die and offers 24 actionable items: prefer boring tech, keep WIP to two items, use automated tests CI and APM, and plan for handover with password managers and runbooks. Recommends the three-wise technique for postmortems, fan-out background jobs for fragile email delivery, and spending an innovation token only on core differentiators. Practical, tool-level steps and numbers over platitudes.
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chapters (17)
- 0:00Solo web development intro
- 4:18Finding solo projects
- 5:21Keys to building alone
- 6:22How to be good as a solo developer
- 10:39Clarify what you're optimizing for
- 12:45Learning from failure
- 14:29Improving systems
- 15:32Working faster alone
- 17:43Reduce work in progress
- 19:28Boring tech choices
- 21:33Feedback loops for confidence
- 23:17Sustainability and not dying alone
- 25:05Solo career phases
- 26:51Staying with tech trends
- 27:52Fostering trust in solo projects
- 29:17Planning your exit
- 30:00Never truly solo
