Last month, I wanted to find interesting projects to work on with friends. I wanted to get good at technology. That meant cultivating taste and intuition in finding interesting projects to work on. I wanted to help friends along the way by sharing my search process and learnings.
In February, I reached out to Serena and helped build a bit of the platform for Datacurve The engineering and design team that makes up Datacurve is exceptionally talented.
I didn’t have capacity to work on it full-time, so I only worked for a week. I’m happy how it turned out! My friend Ricky helped them raise their seed round, and now helps grow Datacurve.
Later that month, I set up airdrop.engineer and asked folks in SF for leads. There’s no shortage of potential startups in SF.
Airdrop.Engineer sources exceptional engineering and design talent on demand.
Engineering is an art.
We’re a team of hackers and painters that turn concepts into demo-ready MVPs in one week. We hear your idea, and we’ll turn it into something you can proudly present to investors and clients in one week. We worked with YCombinator backed startups, and Tesla, Shopify, and help take companies from pre-seed to seed.
Interested?
I had experience working at YC startups, so my target clients were:
- Waterloo YC founders that just raised, and want to turn around an MVP for demo day
- VC that need internal tooling but don’t have the resource for a full-time intern
Ambitious and curious folks should focus on what genuinely interests them. They’ll work harder than they ever thought possible because they’re passionate in what they’re doing. This means ignoring what others think is valuable or prestigious, and instead focusing on what genuinely interests you. It means working harder than you ever thought possible, simply because you’re so passionate about what you’re doing. One of the best ways is to work on your own projects, as Paul Graham suggests. By following your interests and building things that genuinely excite you, you’ll develop a deep expertise in the technologies and ideas that matter most to you.
Here’s the copy for airdrop.engineer
