--- title: Stop Waiting for the Big Idea. Ship the Small App. description: An indie developer argues that chasing a single big startup idea is a way to avoid shipping, while small, scoped projects force you through the full production... canonical: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-waiting-for-the-big-idea-ship-the-small-app--gdne2u1kz twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:site: @dailydotdev og:type: website og:site_name: daily.dev og:title: Stop Waiting for the Big Idea. Ship the Small App. | daily.dev og:description: An indie developer argues that chasing a single big startup idea is a way to avoid shipping, while small, scoped projects force you through the full production... og:url: https://daily.dev/posts/stop-waiting-for-the-big-idea-ship-the-small-app--gdne2u1kz og:image: https://api.daily.dev/og/posts/GDNE2u1KZ.png og:image:alt: Stop Waiting for the Big Idea. Ship the Small App. og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 630 og:locale: en --- > ## Documentation Index > Fetch the complete documentation index at: https://daily.dev/llms.txt > Use this file to discover all available pages before exploring further. # Stop Waiting for the Big Idea. Ship the Small App. **[Medium](https://daily.dev/sources/medium_js)** · 6 min read · 0 upvotes · 0 comments ## Summary An indie developer argues that chasing a single big startup idea is a way to avoid shipping, while small, scoped projects force you through the full production loop: build, ship, get real users, fix, repeat. Drawing on personal projects (a wallpaper app, an npm scroll picker, a PR review tool, and a gratitude journal app rejected three times by the App Store), the author claims these small reps taught practical skills like App Store review, package maintenance, and SEO that a never-shipped big idea never could. The piece ends with four rules for picking a shippable weekend project: keep it small, solve your own annoyance, make it reach a stranger, and maintain it for a month. ## Full article daily.dev links to this article rather than hosting it. Read it at the original source: ## Similar posts on daily.dev - [The Weekend Product Myth: A Realistic System for Busy Developers](https://daily.dev/posts/the-weekend-product-myth-a-realistic-system-for-busy-developers-suk4qo21e) · Medium · 1 upvotes · 0 comments - [Stop building side projects. 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