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May 23-June 3
Three weeks ago, fair young Max Haining - the creator of #100DaysOfNoCode - messaged me and asked if I'd be willing to show my app on Demo Day. Demo Day is a quarterly zoom meetup where the 100Days community oooo's and aaah's at the cool stuff people are making.
At first I was like "sounds fun" but then I was like "NOPE" because I hadn't even started building it yet. I'm brand new to Bubble, and I had no idea how long it would take. Three weeks to build an entire web app on a not-uncomplicated platform that I'm just starting to learn - on top of normal life/client stuff - sounded 0% feasible.
But then I thought "I enjoy complaining a lot and the stress of this deadline would be SO fun to complain about" and I re-replied to his message with a begrudgingly excited "Okay, fine."
Since that day, I have spent at least (I said AT LEAST) 4 hours a day, including weekends, getting my app operational and pretty. I have slept very little and eaten way too many BBQ Pringles, and in my delirium have started cutting my own hair.
But lest you think I'm complaining (and of course you would, because that was my stated plan), I am in-no-way-at-all complaining. The past 3 weeks were the most (professional) fun I've had in the past 5 years.
Learning how to build a thing you thought up is a whole new realm of excitement I did not know existed.
Then, last night, I showed these folks what I made and it was FUCKING. MAGICAL.
Naturally, I was scrambling to put my slides together an hour before the call began, and then my computer froze up and I had to restart, and then the main function of the app started doing a funny thing... I was headed toward certain disaster and total embarrassment on my first public thing in the No-Code space. I was preemptively devastated.
But then it was my turn. I don't remember what I said or how I got through it, but in a stroke of how-the-fuck, the Bubble gods were as kind as a god has ever been, and everything went smooth——as——buttah.