working on Dear Me (#1)
today i started working on a new project!
it's an idea i had for some time, and it's basically a web page where you can write a letter to your future self and it'll be sent you to on a specific date, or you can just write a letter into the void where it'll disppear once you've written it.
it's nothing crazy or amazing but it's a side project i wanted to build, and hopefully a stepping stone to bigger and better projects!
i had been putting off side projects for a while because i felt like they wouldn't be the best use of my time during the job search.
i thought that i should continuously be studying, or grinding leetcode, or working on a project worthy enough to put on my resume.
but a friend i made recently, Ian, who reached out to me after reading one of my posts on Bear, encouraged me to start on the project and helped me flesh it out.
at first i wanted to use this project to learn a new technology; Next.js was one i was considering.
but i ended up going with the stack i was most comfortable with, which is just react on the frontend and express on the backend.
although i'm using technologies i'm familiar with, i'm confident that i'll still learn a lot from this project as there will be functionalities that i've never implemented before, such as sending an email to a user, or creating a cronjob to check the database daily.
today i worked on the frontend, and i'm not 100% satisfied, but i think it looks pretty nice.
my favorite color is light blue and it somehow always sneaks its way into my projects, so i tried to avoid it for this one.
i would also love to use this project to learn how to create some more intricate designs!
Three.js is also a library i've been eyeing forever.