Day 1/365 — shipping something every day this year, starting with a job board for creatives
I've spent years building things but not shipping enough.
My biggest struggle has always been my own self-criticism — I set impossibly high standards for my work, and instead of pushing me to build better, it dragged me down. I'd get most of the way there, decide it wasn't good enough yet, and quietly shelve it. I've built a lot of projects. Very few ever made it into people's hands.
So this is a challenge to myself: for the next 365 days, I'm shipping or marketing something every single day. No excuses, no "it's not ready yet."
I'm starting with Palet — a platform for high-quality creative jobs: product design, motion, illustration, brand, 3D/CGI, UX research, art direction, web/Framer. The long-term vision is an AI-enabled hiring platform, but I didn't let myself spend months polishing before validating the problem — I shipped a focused first version instead.
I know a job board isn't a new idea, and that's okay — this challenge is more about beating my own perfectionism than finding the perfect idea. After this, I'm shipping every product I build, no matter how small or imperfect I think it is, rather than letting it die half-finished in my GitHub.
P.S. This MVP went from first commit to launch in 8 days, ~37.5 hours of actual work.
Day 1/365.
👉 palet.so
The part I liked most wasn't even the 365 day challenge. It was shipping a job board in 8 days instead of letting it become the giant hiring platform you had in your head.
I can imagine a designer asking ChatGPT where to find creative jobs that actually show salary and don't play games with applications. If Palet comes up there the first thing they'll quietly check is whether the listings already feel like the kind they'd want to send to a friend.
I'm curious if you've noticed anyone sharing a job they found on Palet before they've even talked about Palet itself.
I like that the challenge is forcing you to optimize for learning instead of perfection.
One thing I'd keep an eye on, though, is making sure the daily shipping habit doesn't become the goal itself. The real compounding comes from repeatedly learning about the same problem, not just repeatedly launching things.