I was wondering if you'd be willing to share your workflow for building products. At big companies, we'd usually do a lot of planning with diagrams, d

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I was wondering if you'd be willing to share your workflow for building products. At big companies, we'd usually do a lot of planning with diagrams, documentation, etc before building anything. I tend to get stuck in analysis paralysis when it comes to building a new products. Seeing how you've built some nice tools like Bear Blog, I wanted to hear from you personally.

I've built a lot of things over the past 10 years. Mostly to satisfy my own curiosity, with a few of them becoming actual products that fund the rest of my tinkering.

My approach to building products is more akin to a gardener than to a product developer. I play around with ideas, follow interesting threads, and see where the path takes me. I keep a Trello board of random ideas that I'd like to play with later. These ideas sit and germinate in the back of my mind for weeks or even months. Then, when I have some free time I pull up the Trello board and select an idea I'm particularly interested in and build a prototype.

The key to being a good thing builder, in my experience, is to always try and ship something. This just means that someone can pick it up, and potentially find it useful. It doesn't have to have user authentication, analytics, or even a landing page. It just needs to be something.