Correct me if my new STARTUP idea is WRONG!
Tags: startup, github
Published: 2022-11-21 09:57:32

> Idea is cheap, execution is everything

This statement is widely popular in a startup world. We all know and understand but it is hard to apply it well in a real world. The ideation stage is the most dreamy and easiest stage kickstarting a startup, no one would want to dig deeper into the later stages. I have a new idea today but tomorrow, it might be obsolete already. 

Reflect upon my own experience, there has been thousands of times I surrounded myself with new startup ideas for a few hours and then decide to pick one which I feel most feasible. After a few days coding, I started losing motivation due to the large gap between ideation stage and execution stage. I did not measure thoroughly the workload and essential resources needed for my project. Hence, most of my projects just become unknown repositories and never got released.

## Why do I tell you about that shit? 

Well, before, whenever I think about doing startup, I envisage something huge and mysterious. Mysterious enough that nobody know the fancy technologies I used for that project so they can't copy it. But it is not a good strategy, what I learnt is that

> The more you give, the more you receive

So I think this could be a wise move to share what am I doing with the community and if there's anyone who get interested in the project, I can make a new friend. You know, working on side project feels a little bit lonely.

## What am I building?

Enough for beating around the bush, we will jump into the main part now. There's an application on mobile that I am really into called Forest and it is a very good app for tracking productivity. However, it is not free and the feature is quite limited. 

![Forest app](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/38tlg6fshm6wjwewe3z5.png)

And Github is my most favorite platform. The community on Github is so huge and I am also a big fan of it. I started thinking why does not anyone build an app to track the contribution activity on Github. Imaging if you can receive an in-game reward for every contribution on Github, it would motivate programmers a lot. After brainstorming the idea out on paper, I estimate the resources will be spent for this app and it is not much. We have the Github API and all UI libraries in React ecosystem to quick develop this app under two months. 

But I want something a little bit adventurous, something like a Pokemon game. Github Octocat can be a base character of the app, instead of planting a tree whenever user finish their goal, we will give user Experience for their Pokemon whenever a contribution goal reached.

## Current progress

I kickstarted the project two days ago and already have a very simple version for the app, I named the app GitPet - reference to VoidPet - a very cool Pokemon-like web game. 

![Github Productivity Pokemon](https://dev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com/uploads/articles/u9d5z8nb5o7chjdne3u0.png)

So what do you feel about this project idea? Your opinion would be a great contribution to the app. I will work on the app and try to deliver it to the community as soon as possible.

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