Hello everyone!
I’m currently on a plane flying from Miami back home. Recently, I was on a trip to Disney.
BattleMania just hit 1.4M visits. If you had asked me a year ago if a game that I made would have that many visits in that little time, I would’ve probably called you crazy.
But, here we are, at 1.4M visits. It’s really crazy to think about that.
Anyway, I’m going to be working on a new Roblox game called “Be a Pirate!”; let’s take that one to 10M visits!
As they say, once you achieve one milestone, you end up wanting something even more. It’s hedonic adaptation in action.
The journey of working on a game that you yourself would play for a long time and then having it explode is a lot of fun.
Even if you work a lot on a project and it doesn’t end up doing as well as you wanted, like my startup, Quizzy, there’s still something that shows your progress from all of those days of building.
I worked on Quizzy for 2 years, devoting 2 hours a day to it. It ended up getting around 500 registrations, with 1 or 2 every now and then.
To me, 500 registrations is really great, but it didn’t make any revenue, which makes me feel a bit disappointed.
But still, that’s 500 registrations on a studying app that I built.
Small habits yield big results; the act of me working 2 hours a day every single day created the final product.
You might be able to work on something for just 20 minutes on a given day, but if you devote 20 minutes every single day on it, you’ll end up with something really great.
Maybe for you, that’s just 20 lines of code, 20 seconds of recorded videos, 20 pushups, whatever it may be.
If you do it every day, some sort of magic will happen along the way, and you will see the product of your efforts.
For me, building Quizzy was like this:
Day 1 – Revisiting HTML/CSS
Day 2 – Coding the login page in HTML/CSS
Day 3 – Coding the dashboard page in HTML/CSS
Day 4 – Scrapping everything and hiring someone to do it
(After they worked on 4-5 pages and gave me their finished product)
Day 5 – Learning how they coded it using React JS
Day 6 – Learning the internals of React JS
Day 7 – Changing the CSS that they made to fit my style
Day 8 – Learning about PHP
…
Each day, you work on something towards an end goal that you have.
For me, my end goal was to create a studying app that uses the best learning methods to help students across the world learn better.
And that’s exactly what I’ve created.
So, to wrap this up, think of something that you really want to make, think of the first step, and just get started on it.
Every day, place a new brick, and at the end, you’ll have a pyramid (or something like that).
Have fun!
