It begins

Hello fellow reader,

my name is Philipp, I am a undergraduate student in a Berlin based university. Since my early teenage years I was interested in tech and programming, but spent most of my time playing several MMORPGs like Diablo 2 and World of Warcraft. A few years ago I moved out of my parents place and started studying mathematics in one of the most distant places in Germany. During the first years I always told myself to not get to comfortable living here since

it's only for a few years and I'm gonna go back home anyways.

So I started working on several private projects

• a smart home platform to connect all your devices with a local raspberry pi so you can control all your devices through a web interface
• a social web app (tinder like) where you can swipe for a lunch partner to socialize and explore different restaurants
• a time management tool to track working times, with scheduling and team management
• a ml image detection service to detect the species a specific kind of plant
  • including a website to categorize images
  • a coin system to exchange image classifications with manual classified images

out of those ideas none ever made it into production.

The problem

I love starting but it's way too hard to finish.

But why is that so?

For me the main reason is perfectionism. Every time I end up with my first frontend for an app I'm dissatisfied with the result.

I'm more of a backend person but saw too many awesome designs and functionality, or just a great UX which feels like it will take several hours just to get the basic functionality done. So mostly I just stop at a certain point and forget about the project until someone tells me a new live struggling problem and I'm back at the beginning of a new project.

The solution?

One day a former colleague approached me after he found out I my contract was soon to be expired and I was looking for a new job and told me his idea to participate in the shared economy by renting action cams.

I like the idea of shared economy and don't like wasting resources, so he had me at

Would you like to help me with my website?

My immediate thought was how awesome the idea is, that it needs to be super easy to implement and of course

From here

Thanks for reading so far, partner! During the next weeks I will tell the story of my journey of Learning React the hard way, Who needs planning if you have an idea and How I stopped quitting.