Jumpstarting Your Side Project With Dicko Sow

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Guest

Dicko Sow: Founder of Yodi Naturals.

Summary

Our guest this week is Dicko Sow. Dicko is a software developer at a technical consultancy, but recently she has been spending her time building out a side project called Yodi Naturals. We talk about how she chose the project, how important it was to plan the project, the technical decisions, and what Dicko learned putting together the launch page. If you’re trying to decide whether to try a side project, this episode has some good information about how to put that together.

Notes

01:58 - Wanting to do a Side Project; Deciding on Said Side Project

• Jumpstart your sideproject! -- Dicko Sow


• PearConf

03:59 - Yodi Naturals

05:56 - Getting Started (Mentally)

07:50 - Planning and Prioritization of Minimum Viable Product Features

13:25 - Name Origin

16:08 - Getting Started (Technically)

18:45 - Using React

20:26 - Working with AWS

22:24 - Decoupling React and Rails and Releasing Features

23:51 - Design

• MailChimp


• Google Analytics

26:31 - Learning as the Project Comes Together

27:29 - Managing Search and Tag Functionality

• Elasticsearch

31:18 - Recipe Curation

31:52 - Launching the Launch Page; Shipping Things

Special Guest: Dicko Sow.