DeveloPassion’s Newsletter — Small and riskless bets

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Welcome to the 31st edition

Another week, another newsletter! I hope that you all had a great one 🤩

This week I’ve started brainstorming with a new partner in crime. André and I are going to build a small Note-taking & productivity-centric app. Nothing earth-shattering, but this should be fun! 🎉

I’ll tell you more in a week or two! Today, I’ll just focus on the approach and my rationale.

Let’s dive in!

Small and riskless bets

I have three short-term goals with the new app I’m working on:

• Develop something small without needless pressure
• Get to know André a little better and share knowledge/experiences
• Get better at UX/UI design

It’s what I would call a small and riskless bet. Whatever happens, I won’t have “lost” much money, and I’ll have learned a thing or two along the way.

After having lost 200K € due to opportunity cost with my previous SaaS startup, I’ve decided to be much less ambitious with…