Being a Jack of All Trades

Published 3 months ago • 1 min read

Mubs

A recent tweet by Pieter Levels reminded me of the importance of being a jack of all trades when working on side projects.

It's not enough to be able to good build software, there is a lot more to building a good project than the quality of the software, in fact that's probably pretty low on the list.

Wrote my thoughts on being a jack of all trades:
Mastering the Art of Being a Jack of All Trades

Continuing my learning for SEO skills, I recently completed a build challenge run by the team behind Build the Keyword.

Much like Buildspace's Nights and Weekends challenge, I thought the attrition was interesting.

226 builders signed up for the challenge
145 joined the slack groups
31 projects were completed

Just showing up and doing the work puts you ahead!

If you haven't seen it, I launched AI Tutorials during the challenge, but more on that in a future post.

Still waiting on Spotify to approve PlaylistKit. We've passed 7 weeks, but I have an update, and perhaps not a good one:

Although I thought managing playlists was already an approved use case for the Spotify API, seems like specific use needs future consideration. Really have no idea if/when PlaylistKit will be approved now.

Happy building,
Mubs

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