Titans Journal Day 31: 1 Month!

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Day 31! One month has passed, and it's time for some reflection and introspection!

Encouraged by @8bit, I first stepped outside of my comfort zone and did the first video intro for Titans Finance. It felt so awkward and still makes me cringe to watch it. After that, I did 4 presentations in front of entrepreneurs, enthusiasts, and a VC panel, and developers. I started talking to people about Titans Finance every day! Building products is cool, but without users, it's just a moot exercise.

Interacting with new people every day could be tiring. Repeating the same ideas over and over, sometimes it feels counterproductive. Where is the balance in building community vs building product?

There are days I focused on coding and product discussions, then there are days like today, I catch up on emails, LinkedIn messages, check out social media contents, and make meeting arrangements. There is no GitHub check-in's to show, and no immediate results in all the communications. Most of the times this is just equally rewarding as I get to talk to many interesting people, learn new things and new perspectives, absorb all the fruitions from other people's thoughts. This is like building potential energy, accumulating assets and resources so once it strikes the result would be impactful. Or, at least, I hope it would.

Blogging daily gives me time to reflect on what's accomplished daily, and plan for the next day--commit myself when making plans publicly, not afraid to be embarrassed when failed. And build a habit of writing, a habit of being transparent, so I could spend less time worrying, and more time learning, building, pivoting, and most of all, leaping forward!

My goal for the next 60 days is to focus on completing the Titans MVP, finishing the Maximus project for HackMoney, and building something cool for Fabrica. The 60 days following that would be shifting focus from expressing to engaging.

Love the Indiehackers community--I learned so much from other Indiehackers, full of positive energy and free resources. I'm glad that I found a "safe place" to step outside of my comfort zone. Hopefully, sometime soon I'd be able to contribute more to the IH community and to other Indiehackers' success!