Terence Eden’s Blog

Building a Minimum Viable Laptop Sticker Business

@edentmvp stickers · 2 comments · 1,700 words · read ~2,168 times.

Lots of blinking stickers next to each other.

I made a laptop sticker. Enough people told me how much they liked it, that I decided to sell them. Here's the story of how I (didn't) become a millionaire. https://shkspr.mobi/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Single-Blinking-Laptop-Sticker.mp4 Prototype Normally, I'd upload a design to something like RedBubble, and sell the stickers that way. But I couldn't find any sticker companies which sold lenticulars. So, I had to do the ordering, processing, and posting myself. Lots of admin. Joy. …

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Previewing Circular Avatars

@edentavatar code HowTo mvp Social Networks · 150 words · read ~219 times.

Play with the demo I was lucky enough to go to Number 10 Downing Street for a meeting a few weeks ago. A perfect opportunity for a photo of me by that famous door. Being the vain man that I am, I wanted to set it as my avatar photo. But Twitter and other social networks now use circular avatars. The "10" has been obliterated and part of my head is missing. So I've created a quick way to preview avatar images to see how they'll look on both squares and circles. It places a simple…

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