How long have you been an indie hacker? MY STORY

I started learning web development as a self taught back in October 2020 with https://freeCodeCamp.org.

My first step into building projects was by completing coding challenges right on freeCodeCamp.

Then I tried to build my own side projects. But tutorial hell was a big enemy.

It was super hard for me for so long to find a project idea that would be interesting enough.

In February 2022 I decided to actually build a side project that I would NEVER leave. Never give up on it. It should be something so fun and cool to work on that I will never be able to think about letting it go. Because I've already given up on too many side projects before.

So I thought...

What's something that I'm obsessed with?

Movies and TV Shows...

So let's build something around that.

I started at the end of February 2022.

I launched my own movie/show recommendation app called Movydick in May 2022.

And in 2023 I thought myself "why not building something fun around Oscars ?" since they are coming in March 2023.

So I built a game of votes where you can make a vote and predict the winners of the next Oscar Awards.

You can give it a try here: https://movydick.vercel.app/acad...

An amazing feature is still coming :

-> Saving your own votes in a "My Votes" section

That way you can:

• share who you voted for with your friends and other movie fans

• compare your votes with the real results after The Oscar Ceremony

• get a score depending on how many predictions you got right

It was a super long journey. I faced so many challenges, bugs, failures but I never gave up.

I also got a huge support on Twitter since I'm building in public in there.

I show people what I build and the progress I'm making.

And that support helped me so much to get where I am now.