Writing about software I’m building, errors I run into, and situations I get into (and often stumble through) has been huge for my own development and my career (https://vadosware.io).
Doing this has led me to habitually bite off more than I can chew which seems to be the only way to really grow:
- A managed services provider for smaller clouds/infrastructure providers called NimbusWS (https://nimbusws.com), which came out of all my blogging about Hetzner and kubernetes.
- LoginWithHN.com from how often I write about cool stuff on HN that was built for HN
- A salary sharing site for Accountants (https://nomorepizzaparties.com), which came about due to trying and investigating Baserow and NocoDB.
Outside of tech there’s awesome collectives like MoonMusiq (https://moonmusiq.com/), a collaboration of musicians that I was made aware of via HN actually -- its obviously an outlet for people to do these two things, in that order. Make cool shit, share it.