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This post is more of a rant, but also a lesson from my mistake, please learn from me.
I was thinking for the past 5 days straight about a "crazy idea" for the Figma Hackathon I tried so many different ideas, I prompted ChatGPT, asked, prompted again, tried again, and nothing worked like I wanted it to.
I was throwing so many shots in the dark that I just got tired and didn't end up contributing to the 6000+ lovely entries there are for this.
On top of all that, I started looking at all the entries, and compared myself to all of them. "Oh yea, this one is definitely going to win", "wait this one got 10k likes, there's the winner", "you know what, what is even the point of me trying."
Comparison is the thief of trying. Just ship the thing. Have fun doing it. Thank you to everyone who submitted, you all inspire me.❤️
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