[Ilasky]

There's been a couple articles about finishing projects posted in the last couple weeks[0][1] and in addition to this topic being incredibly interesting, it also seems pretty pervasive in the community.

A lot of people, myself included, tend to work well with external stimuli, e.g., other people. Especially when there aren't users of the product, there's no one you're really accountable for except yourself. When you start to have users, of course, that becomes different.

So, the question really becomes: how can I bake in accountability in the early stages of my project to see it through and finish?

My answer has been to build around others. A group of us meet weekly over the course of a 6-week period to chat about our project, progress, etc. with a "demo day" at the end where we're expected to show the final thing.[2] It's honestly really fun and we're about to start our third "cohort".

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41428705

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41293219

[2] https://lmt2.com

[creativenolo]

This is real neat.

I see you ask about timezone in the form, but it would be great to address expectations around timezone in ‘questions you may have’.

[Ilasky]

Yes! This cohort we are actually splitting into 2 times so that everyone can join at a time that's convenient (had some people that needed to join very early before and want to avoid that this time)

[joshdavham]

When’s the next cohort? It doesn’t seem to say on the page.

[Ilasky]

Actually just nailed down the date to Oct 6th!