Tyler Dane

Open-sourcing my last app took waayy longer than I expected. Thankfully, I wrote everything I did down. Hopefully this list will save you some headaches during your PH launch prep. Part I: Cleanup the repo 1. Remove Sensitive Commits 2. Remove large files from git 3. Prevent secrets and large files 4. Reduce commits 5. Remove unused code 6. Fix CI 7. Create an official release 8. Fix security...

I'm getting ready to open source a 2+ year project (a calendar app). I'm trying to make things attractive for potential contributors, so I'm: - creating a docs site and cleaning up the code. - letting devs in the niche know via direct outreach - considering doing a quick & minimal launch here on Product Hunt Anything else I could be doing to increase the odds of devs finding and using...

What advice would you give recent dev bootcamp grads on how to stand out and get their first dev job? Bootcamp enrollment has skyrocketed since COVID while the dev market has gotten more competitive. Graduates are looking for ways to de-risk themselves and get that first interview for a junior role. I bump into a lot of bootcampers around where I live in Minneapolis and they're always...

As a dev contractor, I'm always juggling work and personal email calendars. I've seen some recent products that simply sync events between various Google Calendar and Office 365 accounts so people can view them in one place. It seems like a pain point for the power users, but I'm not sure how many other people are out there with this problem. How many calendars do you have and how do you...

The biggest adjustment I had after going FT on my latest project was deciding what deserved my attention. It was easy when I was an employee: I'd just grab something off the backlog and start working. And it was easy when I had a parter in past projects: we'd spend 10 minutes weighting our options and picking one to prioritize. But working solo made my judgment susceptible to the whims of...