Podcast: Side Projects

Christy:

I think it was called that, yeah. The latest version of it is actually built in Cake 2, which we’re now going to update to Cake 3. I don’t even know what stage you’re in anymore. We didn’t really have any collaborative processes going on or anything like that, nothing like how we work right now.

Russell:

I think also a telling part of us, both slacking a bit and trying to get back on track, was do you remember how we tried to set deadlines and stuff, and we created a list of to-dos?

Christy:

Yeah.

Russell:

We’d be like, “Okay, look. These are the, this is our minimum viable product. We can get that.” We said, “This is our MVP.” Right?

Christy:

Yeah. That was after I first started hearing it being listening in on this Dan and Tom chat. I was like, “These guys sound like they might know what they’re on about. I’m going to bring that into Team Drop.” Hella did it work.

Russell:

I think our minimum viable product lost about 2 features from our complete product. Obviously, we set deadlines, and then when a deadline passes, that’s like just saying, “Every deadline will now pass.” Right?

Christy:

Yeah. I did find to love Wunderlist, so …

Russell:

Yeah, that’s true.

Christy:

That was good. We did find Wunderlist.

Russell:

Getting good to-dos is important. From that, we do have a list somewhere which tells us what we need to do.

Christy:

Yeah, we do.

Russell:

Yeah. That’s the story of one possibly failed project of mine.

Christy:

Though, i wouldn’t say that. It’s on hold, as far as the design side of things because the actual functionality of the whole thing hasn’t changed much. I think that’s something that you can nail down quite quickly, especially … Potentially, you’re able to nail down that quicker in a personal project than with a client project because we can just back ball  it out as it were until we’ve got a real set load of features. As far as the design is concerned, I know that you’ve gone through several phases.

Russell:

Yeah.

Christy:

If you leave that design alone for too long, I’m sure if you came back to it now you would just redesign it all.

Russell:

It’s funny you say that. I actually was cleaning up all my web folder the other day, and I stopped backing it up the design files for Team Drop because it became a fight in my head. I was like, “It’s okay if I lose this.” Because I think if we came back to it, I’d have to redo it.

Christy:

I feel like I might’ve deleted the repository the other day.

Russell:

Well, that’s good. Round of applause, everybody involved in that project.