This week I got to speak with Hakim El Hattab. I feel pretty special as Hakim told me he doesn’t do public stuff very often. I get it! He’s a busy man with a family, a successful company, and ambitious other projects. I think of Hakim as the master of simple but satisfying UI concepts that have a way of becoming bigger than demos. Consider Ladda, which you can find as part of his personal site, which is a button that expands to show a spinner. This concept started with Hakim and has now made its way to surely hundreds or thousands of websites, some as big as Slack and some as awesome as CodePen itself.
Time Jumps
- 00:26 Guest introduction
- 01:09 Reveal.js and Slides.com
- 06:22 Working in the developer niche
- 08:02 VC investing vs lifestyle business
- 10:02 Kodemo development
- 19:36 How do you decide to work on side projects?
- 21:54 Sponsor: Equinix Metal
- 22:32 Having fun while building Slides
- 26:22 Having fun as a marketing effort
- 30:26 Recognizing strengths for marketing
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