Tuesday, 17 December 2024

Interlude - Sickness and distractions

 Ugh. I've been sick. A nasty flu and a bonus round of bronchitis because I am just that lucky. 

As such, I haven't really been focused on moving forwards with Project 2.  Instead I've allowed myself to get distracted and started a couple of other things on the side. Did I mention that one of my biggest flaws is that I am great at starting things and terrible at finishing them? I think I might have.

However, it turns out that one of the projects was something simple that I was able to finish in a couple of days. As well as being terrible at finishing projects that I have started, I am also terrible at making decisions regarding what to work one.  I  dither so much over the 'what shall I work on today' question that I often just give up on being productive and choose brain rot instead. 

To fix that, I made a simple tool to help make decisions.  https://thedecisionator.com/ lets you create a list of choices to make, and then will randomly pick a choice from that list for you.  The lists of choices are stored to local browser storage, so they will persist between browser sessions on the same device




The site is another Vue/Vuetify/Typescript site that I've deployed via Cloud Flare pages.  It is intentionally bare bones, but it gets the job done.  The next time that I need to choose what to work on, I'll be covered!

Since one of the themes of this blog is side hustles and money making, it is interesting to consider if or how this site could be turned into a side hustle.  On the face of it, there don't seem to be too many options

  • The site is too simple for advertisers to consider, it is unlikely to pass a provider review
  • There is no realistic opportunity to 'upsell' to a  paid model.
  • There isn't anything to subscribe t
About the only avenue I can think of is adding a donation link. I might look at this later.. but this would need some serious traffic numbers to be viable. This leads to marketing/traffic/seo considerations that I need to get across but which probably aren't worth it for a simple tool.

For not I am just happy to have something that I can use to help me be more decisive.  I might come back to making this a more profitable exercise later if I think of a good idea.

 



Hiatus - pressing the pause button

  Some career things have come up which mean that I will need to put the main themes of this blog on pause for a while.  I need to focus on ...