Episode 60: Jumpstarting Your Side Project With Dicko Sow

Jumpstarting Your Side Project With Dicko Sow TableXI is now offering training for developers and products teams! For more info, email workshops@tablexi.com. Guest Dicko Sow (https://www.yodinaturals.com/): Founder of Yodi Naturals (https://www.yodinaturals.com/). 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 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTSN3TbmDrE) - PearConf (https://twitter.com/PearConf) 03:59 - Yodi Naturals (https://www.yodinaturals.com/) 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 (https://reactjs.org/) 20:26 - Working with AWS (https://aws.amazon.com/) 22:24 - Decoupling React and Rails and Releasing Features 23:51 - Design - MailChimp (https://mailchimp.com/) - Google Analytics (https://analytics.google.com/analytics/web/#/) 26:31 - Learning as the Project Comes Together 27:29 - Managing Search and Tag Functionality - Elasticsearch (https://www.elastic.co/) 31:18 - Recipe Curation 31:52 - Launching the Launch Page; Shipping Things Special Guest: Dicko Sow.