Startup/side project jams
"Game Jams" are a really popular thing, and many game developers enjoy participating in them. Most of these Jams are hosted online, and some of them even have cool prizes. Some great video games and communities are born from these events. It's a perfect place to test ideas, learn and build a following. I would love to see and participate in something like this for startups and side projects.
Technically speaking I could easily create an online platform to host those Jams but I think for this idea to work properly these events must be hosted on an online platform that is already popular among founders, devs, and others - like for example Indie Hackers... (😉 wink, wink...)
Some founders are already doing their own challenges and marathons, so why not create a platform for it? I can be wrong but I don't think there is anything like this out there right now. What do you guys think?
I think in the non-gamedev world these things are called hackathons? :D
Maybe @csallen could start quarterly indiehackathons?
That would be awesome!
True... but for some reason most of them are not about Saas's, Startups and side-projects...
Game jams are hard work and super fun. I would love to do an indie app jam!
Instead of asking Courtland to do it why not make your own group and just start the first one in a low key way?
It’s natural for developers to want to build developer products but, really, there are two things to consider:
But that’s not to say that you shouldn’t do your product.
From observation, the more successful developer products here seem to target low-skill, often no-code developers. There’s a much larger group of developers that spends more money on tools to help a small business use Zapier or something like that.