This post’s written with good ol’ TextMate. I’m still working on that mac desktop blogging software review post, now that I’ve added Blogo into the mix.

Deadline: 10.10.08

I’ve decided to give myself 30 days. Thirty days to do something that I deem worthwhile. And hopefully, I won’t have some grand vision like I do with so many of my freaking projects: I hope to just do something small. Really, the goal is to have that something small turn into something big.

Of course, I’ve given myself deadlines many many times. I can already recall the cutesy number games I play with dates of the calendar year. This time, I hope that there’s an added outcome of something awesome, rather than just a list of lessons to be learned on what not to do.

The Goal

The goal is to create a service/product. A useful and useable service/product that can be somehow used to fulfill someone’s need in exchange for money. I want to experience the entire gamut of development, from planning to delivery, from a first person perspective.

It could be a web app. It could be a desktop app. It could be a blog. Heck, it could even be something that doesn’t involve computers. But I know, it’s gotta be something creative. After 30 days, I want to be able to say: Wow, that was time well spent.

Of course, this requires the definition of what time well spent is. I guess all the past time planning all those past web applications were time well spent. It’s just that there wasn’t any tangible outcome.

So Now What?

Well, I’m hoping to keep track of each day’s worth of work for HanMeta in post form. These two days, I’ve been writing up some fresh content for the Josh Kim dot Org blog, but I’ve been thinking about creating a more tech focused blog.

Really, the next couple of days are going to include reflections as well as planning. I’m hoping for about a week of planning, followed by two weeks of implementation, followed by a week of testing, give or take.

There are just too many ways I could use up the next 30 days, but I just need to find out what’s the most opportune way to do so.

Maybe I’ll upload the project map that I’ve been holding in my head for so long… or just fabricate a list of sorts.