Hi👋🏼, I'm Michael and I've started Side Project Stack to save you time and frustration.

Makers helping other Makers, make. That’s it.

I interview insanely talented no code Makers and provide their raw commentary and insights on the no code tools they used. You can get access to that by signing up for the newsletter here. So that it might help Makers new or experienced, make and launch their idea into a reality.

In addition, I also provide my unique perspective from the angle of no code Maker and a product manager on how to make and launch a no code side project.

So how’d I get to here?

I launched into tech when I launched an online marketplace in 2016. For me, it was epic. 

I spent almost a year figuring out how to put it together and get it to the finish line (and launch)…or so I thought. 

Turns out launching is actually the starting line. I had a lot to learn.

Launching it I received press coverage and actual revenue. All without writing a single line of code.

It was magical to me. I was hooked. But there was a problem. I was toast. 

I was so exhausted by the time I launched I had nothing left to give. Working every night and weekend for a year, I was mentally and emotionally on empty. 

I discovered making is only 50% of the battle. Launching a side project is an art.

How do you make and launch something successfully without killing yourself?

It didn’t need to be this hard.  I estimated that I wasted roughly 50% of my time figuring out I started with the wrong no code tools and much of my time learning how to use the right tools to make my project.

It was long and lonely journey. Making a no code side project by yourself was the wrong approach.

I thought, would it be helpful if I captured all my learnings from the tools to save that time for other Makers?  

And then if other Makers contributed I could learn from them too. We all could benefit.

At the time, I noticed some Maker’s were sharing their thoughts on Twitter. 

But, there was a second problem. I had a small network, my Twitter feed was often random  and if I wasn’t obsessively looking at Twitter I might miss something helpful. 

So often I would see Makers post how, what  and why they used different tools to create their product tech stack, but then in a matter of hours, it would be gone in a mass sea of never-ending tweets.