Case Studies
Here you'll find a few case studies of my own projects. Both monetized and not. A few successes, some failures. With numbers when available.
Hopefully they encourage you to get started and keep going :)
More coming soon, check back.
Automating love notes
A fun project from a smol idea that creates a good story.
You can read more technical details here:
- Reverse engineer a GraphQL API to automate love notes
- Send daily random photos from an S3 bucket using AWS Lambda
- Serverless file upload to S3 with NextJS and AWS Lambda
Why programmers work at night
A self published book from a viral essay.
The landing page is still live 👉 https://nightowlsbook.com
useAuth
An open source library from a cumbersome process.
You can try it out here 👉 https://useauth.dev
Data Visualization with D3.js
A published best seller from a cold outreach email.
You can read more details about this one from articles I wrote at the time:
- I published a book with a publisher. Here's what the journey was like.
- With 90k I could become a fulltime author
Learn While you Poop
A video series that people remember 3 years later.
You can see the original videos here
React for DataViz
A profitable business from a friend's challenge.
Serverless Handbook
A self-published Amazon bestseller from a painful experience
Serverless React
A profitable course from a sold-out workshop.
Framework for modern webapps
A rejected idea because I lacked the appetite.
Send text to open door
A rejected idea from a poor prototype.
TechLetterApp
An internal tool that never became a product.
Senior Mindset
An evergreen newsletter growing on its own.