Reasons why I’m building my calendar app 🛶 with Bildr...

🧵 Thread (in no particular order) 👇 1/ Design control 🎨

My first priority with this app is to nail the UI and UX. No standard calendar format like you've seen before, a unique layout and a specific aesthetic I'm going for.

Bildr gives me the right amount of design control. I have full CSS control if I need it.

After a year of burnout, I started evaluating the causes and realized that my calendar was a major source of anxiety and stress.

So I'm building a solution that will turn my calendar into my superpower.

I'll share it all in this thread... 🧵 #BuildInPublic First, the problem I’m trying to solve...

I need an easy way to organize my time into buckets, such as:

👀 Active Participation Meetings
😑 Passive Participation Meetings
💻 Deep Work / Projects
🎨 Creative / Free Work
etc.

The case for working on many projects at once.

A strategy for supercharging the creative process and hacking productivity as an indie creator...

It’s not for everyone, but if you can’t sit still like me it helps prevent creative anxiety...

A THREAD 👇🏾

[1/13] There are several advantages I've found to working on many projects or building several products at once.

REASON #1
You can diversify your work so you can be always creating, never blocked.

If you're blocked waiting on something not in your control, switch projects.

[2/13]

To the entire Maker community: the time is NOW...

I saw what you did in the early days of the COVID outbreak, how you amazingly flew into action building so many products to address every angle of the problem.

I need that same response to help promote and support anti-racism... There are so many problems at the core of this issue, and they all need solutions.

Pick a problem that grieves you and let’s start building solutions.

There’s so much change and impact you can make. Watching silently does not help. You’re a Maker, let’s make change...

A few keys to being a highly-productive maker... [THREAD]

1. Edit your ideas down to their simplest form. This is hard to do, but boil your idea down to the one problem that it solves best that’s reasonably within reach.

Anything more is probably too much to tackle right now. 2. Break your work into smaller chunks. More iterations are your friend. That means putting your work in front of people more frequently and getting more feedback cycles.

Less time spent working on something that’s off the mark. A week max without showing someone your progress.