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Kicked off my personal challenge - 12 Apps in 12 Months - in order to force myself to deliver personal projects as opposed to just tinker with stuff and never make it past the beginner phase.

It's working great; I have a slick kanban workflow on Trello going on, and a (tiny, irrelevant, but useful for this purpose) SaaS app in production.

App #2 is under way ahead of schedule since #1 reached MVP with a full week to spare of January.

It's obviously early days in the project, but I hope to make this my year of sincere effort, and personal growth.

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Ha, identical goal for me, except it's about shipping something rather than just apps each month. I've posted elsewhere with links, but good to know others are doing the same.

I'm thinking one months project might even be a platform to encourage others to do this in 2016...

You're right; shipping something complete is the actual goal. I'm loosely defining the word app, and haven't seen how this will manifest entirely yet.

Additionally, I'm allowing myself to port a previous month's app to another language or environment; January was my first exposure to Node.js for example, but maybe later in the year I'll rework it in Go.

What's the tiny, irrelevant, but useful SaaS app?

Great username, by the way.

Thanks. I guess I'm about to blow my cover. :-)

http://icon-sizerator.davidjpeacock.ca/

I know zillions of people have solutions for this, but it was a nice self-contained project.

Really cool, man! I like it :) good job.

Thank you! I checked out your public persona on twitter and GitHub; I love the techs you work with - so now you're my new best friend.

Wahey!! Thanks! New best friends are the best! :D

Great job. I added a pull request containing the Android icon sizes.

That's fantastic of you - thank you! I'll take a look later. :-)

Very much appreciated!

Could you share more about workflow on Trello you have? (I imagine you are utilizing it alone)

Sure. I believe it actually originated here on HN, though I got it from Pieter Levels.

On my board I have the following lists:

Long-term work items originate in the month list, and get moved left as time progresses. Obviously as items come up they can be input whenever is appropriate.

At the end of the week, 2015 Week N is archived (I actually move it to another board), and a new week is created to cover the next week's completed work.

This setup pressures me into meeting my commitments, and allows me to feel accomplished by looking at the previously completed weeks.

Ah - you also work right to left, which for us has been one of the most sanity preserving changes we've ever made, by pushing larger backlog lists off the screen.

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