2 years of daily Github commits

I started my Github streak around this this time in 2023.

It’s been 2 years of daily Github commits!

Some thoughts on the pros and cons:

Pros:

• Perfect for my life stage now. I find it hard to have the bandwidth to commit to anything huge. This helps me still ship stuff…
• Certain things like marketing, SEO, distribution needs the sustained persistence. That’s why I started #marketing365. Without this commitment, I would never be able to keep going.
• This leaves room for other (more) important things in life – family, health, sanity, financial stability. No point pursuing indie hacking greatness if you can’t even do the essentials of life well.

Cons:

• It’s been two years, yet most days feels like I’ve achieved nothing much. No big profitable SaaS, no stable business, mostly stagnated monthly revenue. If you find a product that works on small drips, this pace would be great. If not, you get stalemate. Consistency alone doesn’t guarantee success.
• It’s just a number. I can humblebrag about it on Twitter from time to time, but mostly, it doesn’t generate more revenue, nor more status, nor can that attention help me achieve my goals. It’s not marketing, to be frank. More of just sharing my story, building in public. Sometimes that can be a distraction from you showing up and doing the work.
• Sometimes I feel like I’m just going through the motion of working towards something. But is it really moving the needle? Does every task lay a brick towards my goal? Hard to measure, because it’s so small. It’s easy to get lost in the haze of routines and dig deeper into a hole which you forgot why you started in the first place.

Will I keep going? Hell yeah!

But perhaps I can be smarter, more intentional, more experimental.

Onwards.