How I built a live transport map for my hometown
summary
Builds a live transport map for a small hometown that pulls real-time locations from GPS beacons into a mobile‑first web app, rewrites ugly existing apps, and publishes open source code. Chooses modern web stacks (including a React ecosystem of libraries), accepts rough edges, and already attracts users while remaining a work in progress. Claims that 90% of pet projects fail unless scoped tightly and driven by real personal pain.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Start
- 2:10Do you want a pet-project?
- 2:55Profit? fame, money, experience, portfolio, clients
- 3:24Bring existing idea to new market use Blue Ocean Strategy
- 3:40Write and store don't trust your brain -memory is flawed
- 4:26Design
- 4:42Draw wireframes draw screens, basic UI, user interactions
- 5:00How to finish?
- 5:16Solve your REAL problem organism always tries to eliminate the irritants
- 5:27Drop the extra keep basic functionality only
- 6:30Nobody cares users will not read your code
- 6:41No browser compatibility! you don't have users anyway
- 7:04No bicycle engineering stop inventing the bicycle - just use existing library
- 7:30Talk about yourself users need to know you exist
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