My FIRST project for was for the Illinois State History fair back in (gasp) 1993. I made the Al Capone Quiz game that won state honors on a now defunct software and computer. LOL.

My first project actually began when I was very young. I had started writing small scripts and programs to get used to what I was actually doing. Fast forward 14-ish years, I have begun working on my actually first project with a business model and product. For those who are newly looking into creating something, I would highly recommend just exploring the area first. Find tutorials on how to create examples that are similar to what you want to make. And keep doing this. If you can't find education through school, education through experience and practice is the next best thing. Also, my favorite motivator is knowing that failing often is better because then you learn more for next time.

Management Information System for Hotel Inventory & Logistics, in 2008. It was built using Visual Basic and I think MySQL database. I built it for a school project. You should try React Native or Flutter 2, they are platform independent framework (meaning they can run on Mobile, Tablet/IPad, Desktop and Web, from one codebase), they have huge communities and tutorials. I think Visual Studio Code supports both

Back in the day one of the first big things I made was a custom Tumblr theme. Was able to learn a lot and got featured in the Tumblr theme store

Thanks for the question! @gabe__perez So my first "product" I built was for the medical office of my parents. A simple phonebook application for DOS with fancy windows and tabs. It was my first serious program I wrote with lots of UI back at that time, and lot's of spaghetti code. But hey, it worked, and it was used for couple months until they bought something else from Microsoft. I was around 8 y.o. at that time. My first business was a brick-and-mortar retail shop, that failed hilariously, but tought me lots of invaluable lessons back when I was 15 y.o. Many tries and several years later my first profitable business was in Healthcare where we were doing warehouse automation for a few hospitals (this was a pre-HIPAA era). We were lucky enough to have more senior mentors coaching our team and myself in building business on top of the product after PMF phase. By the way, let me know your opinion on distribution vs PMF question here: https://twitter.com/eugenehp/sta... My advise for makers is to keep trying, build new things, **listen** to your target audience. Build a team, if you can, and have fun!

My first project is the AI-powered copywriting tool - https://ExtySolutions.com It is made for all the entrepreneurs, marketers and copywriters out there to help write business and marketing copy, brainstorm ideas, and more. Give it a shot!

Phase Invaders! with Microsoft VBA. You know how it is when you don't know what you don't know, right? I wanted to make a game and I had Excel, so I just tried to do it there, not knowing that that was actually more complicated than some other platform. It worked, sort of. Definitely a good learning experience. I'm definitely still an amateur. I finally got started in coding when my technical cofounder quit.

Solving an inventory study case with beginner level of python. It was like 2 months ago and majority of my experience was just staring at the screen and try to figure out what should I do and of course bothering my friends studying software engineering.

I was trying to build a platform for live shows crowdfunding. Image you love some artist, however, they seem to never play a show in your city - you just start a campaign and invite other fans to "buy" a ticket in advance when there're no dates, venue etc. I was a complete beginner so had to learn a lot: coding, analytics, management etc. The thing that really helped me was the university startup accelerator - they forced me to read "Lean startup" and "Mom's test" and that was at some point the most valuable thing to me back there.

Before I made www.workbreakhq.com I made a software directory based on a template, no code. Highly recommend building something that isnt your “big idea” but something that you can learn from, and templates are a great way to learn no-code.

Creating my forum font / signature on Neopets Must have been back in 2005?

So way back in the 80s, I made a character stat generator for AD&D in BASIC. It wasn't perfect, but I was young and quite proud of it.

I started working on my project when Apple released their own coding language Swift in 2014. I have always been Apple fan so I started learning it right after they released it. I wanted to be more productive on that time in my life and I was tracking my progress in normal paper sheets. As you've may already guessed, I did an app for it. It was working well for myself so I decided to share it on the App Store. And then boom! Apple featured it over there and I was shocked. Few days later Cult of Mac reviewed it as many local tech blogs as well. It was so overwhelming success that I couldn't managed to reproduce that dopamine shot level to this day 😂 best time of my life for sure.

My first "serious" coding project was a platform game for mobile. I was using C++ and cocos2dx. My second one was a SEO tool that helped you find keywords based on your competitors. This was developed in C#, html, javascript and microsoft sql. Unfortunately none of these two projects launched. Both remained experiments but helped me learn a lot of stuff. I had though a technical background as I studied informatics. If you have an Idea and don't know where to start my advice is to break it into very small pieces and try to find solutions for each one. Also it is really helpful to share your idea and get help from others. A couple of friends of mine helped me a lot during this process and I am very thankful.

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Used to make minigames and mods for games. Best advice is just to go out there and start trying to build it. I think trying to get programming books and learn things "the right way" is walking into a dead end. I personally wouldn't have had the motivation to get through those. Just follow lots of broken tutorials, StackOverflows, guides, etc., to build the product you want (provided you're trying to do something 'reasonable' – can be hard to judge this without any programming experience already, but most things are reasonable). You'll learn stuff along the way. Some of it you'll just be pasting and have no clue what it does, but at some point down the road you'll figure that out too. You can do it the book way too. But even if you get through the boredom of learning the theory, I feel like acquiring knowledge can be a bit different to knowing how to apply it. I learned a lot of maths etc from textbooks, and even a lot of structural theory from books, but I feel like I'd have lost the joy of programming if I started out with books, rather than just doing.

My first project actually began when I was very young. I had started writing small scripts and programs to get used to what I was actually doing. I have begun working on my actually first project with a business model and product.

My first coding project was code to decrypt text and figure out the cipher key used to encrypt the text. For example, H BC B RDZ decrypts to I AM A BOY Was a C++ project making use of Reading dictionary(to figure out words) and used binary search to search if a word was a valid word in dictionary. This was back when i had no knowledge about Data Structures. Later figured out dictionary search could have been implemented using Trie's or could have made use of a HashMap as well haha.

My first business was related to online games. It was in 2004, when game producers didn't use pay for win model as they do now. My business model was very simple: pay for game subscription, configure bot, which mine ingame gold and sell for real money. It was 4 years journey, during this time I learned programming, web development and ad. I don't think this experience is actual any more. I shared it for demonstrate not-uniq idea: "find your passion, it is a key to grow and success". It is actual any time, but I don't know how exactly find your passion.

My first project was data analysis and modelling using Python - I had taught myself how to code during downtime when working as a management consultant. My advice would be get started now because you just need a few hours a week to develop some potentially life-changing skills. Whether its learning how to code, or via the many great no-code tools out there, it's never been easier for non-technical people to turn ideas into software.