MVP done: sharing product development stats

Context: wordsofmetta.com is a very simple "product" that I built for myself. The only thing it does is show one randomly generated meditation script every day. I use it as a part of my daily meditation routine.

Tech: It is a static website, hosted on Netlify. The content is randomly generated during deployment, which happens whenever I update the site or once per day via Zapier.

Dollar costs:

• $12 for the domain name on Hover
• $40 for the icons (The Noun Project Pro subscription, amortized thru other side projects)

Time investment breakdown:

• [35%] 5.5 hours on core business logic (Python, text generation, templates etc)
• [30%] 4.75 hours on design (CSS, graphics etc)
• [12%] 2 hours on site coding (HTML etc)
• [10%] 1.5 hours on site infrastructure (learn Netlify, build script, DNS etc)
• [10%] 1.5 hours on static site content ("About" page etc)
• [3%] 0.5 hours on general research (meditation scripts, book links etc)

Total active time spent on MVP: 15.75 hours, mostly nights and weekends in April 2019.