Mubs is an amazingly prolific creator. He's built 85 side projects which are all listed on his website and was Product Hunt's Maker of the Year in 2016. His output is inspiring and he offers great advice on how to approach building side projects of your own.

Mubashar Iqbal

Projects

Pod Hunt Stack

Timestamps

01:14 - What's Pod Hunt?
03:42 - How are people using Pod Hunt?
08:42 - Why Pod Hunt isn't a native app yet
11:25 - How long to build the prototype?
15:50 - Pod Hunt's Stack
16:55 - Why Pod Hunt isn't a Single Page Application
22:18 - No CDN yet
23:24 - MySQL as the datastore
24:24 - Laravel Forge for hosting
28:13 - What's Hacker News Day?
34:06 - Choose a side project that solves your own problem
40:43 - The difference between projects for fun vs money
50:20 - Will Robots Take My Job?

Pod Hunt and Side Projects with Mubashar Iqbal