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 [email protected]. Guest Dicko Sow: Founder of Yodi Naturals. 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 PearConf 03:59 - Yodi Naturals 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 20:26 - Working with AWS 22:24 - Decoupling React and Rails and Releasing Features 23:51 - Design MailChimp Google Analytics 26:31 - Learning as the Project Comes Together 27:29 - Managing Search and Tag Functionality Elasticsearch 31:18 - Recipe Curation 31:52 - Launching the Launch Page; Shipping ThingsSpecial Guest: Dicko Sow.