How to Ship 5 Products in 5 Days

Ingredients

  • 10 cups of coffee
  • 6 mbps Internet or faster
  • 14 pieces of ham
  • 12 free hours per day
  • 1 full weekend
  • 7 pieces of cheese
  • 14 slices of bread
  • 30+ hours of sleep
  • 1 month Ruby/Rails experience

Recipe

  1. Write 30 ideas in a Google Doc
  2. Choose 5 and define a narrow scope
  3. Code
  4. Debug with Google
  5. HackHands if you get stuck for more than 4 hours
  6. Tell people you’re doing it (peer pressure works)

Examples