Today's Maker: Minh-Phuc Tran - Busting on the scene with NotionTweet

WHY HE'S FEATURED:

• Went viral with his tweet about building NotionTweet in public

• Launched first product on Product Hunt, Audience Feedback for Creators, 4 months ago, and already has over 2,600 followers on Twitter

• Published 20 videos on YouTube

• All while working full-time as a Senior Software Engineer at Torus Labs

I first came across Minh-Phuc's work when his tweet about building NotionTweet went viral (at least by my standards). He's got big ambitions to build 3 products this year and become an IndieMaker generating his own revenue. The coolest thing, he's done all of this building and tweeting while working a full-time job as an engineer.

Read on to learn about 3 habits that have changed his trajectory as a maker 👇

3 Habits that changed Minh-Phuc's trajectory:

• 📣 Publicly announce my goals and set a punishment - I force myself to be accountable by publicly announcing that I’m doing something, and if I miss it, I’ll be punished in some way. I did this 2 times, once was to write 100 articles in 100 days on Medium. If someone found out I missed a day, I’d have to take the person to a restaurant of their choice. I completed the challenge without missing a day. I did the same recently for YouTube, which helped me publish 20 videos in 20 weeks without missing a week. This didn’t help me to succeed in anyway but helped me get started in almost everything seems scary. And by just doing that, I got where I’m now.

• 🤑 Live cheaply and work remotely - I choose to live in an inexpensive country and build a career remotely in an expensive country. I live in Vietnam and work for US/Singapore companies with US/Singapore income. This may sound odd as a tip/habit for makers, but it essentially x5 my income and allow me to build long runway in a very short amount of time. I lived in Singapore once and I like the lifestyle in Vietnam a lot more, so there’s really no degraded lifestyle in a cheaper country at all, sometimes even better.

• ✌️ Prioritize habits and follow the 2-day rule - I have a list of habits, every 1-3 months I add one habit to the list. Everything on this list is #1 priority, above job, project, friends, customers, etc. Then, I have the 2-days rule - I’m allowed to miss once every 2 days. It’s even ok that I do once, skip the next day, and repeat this forever if I’m too lazy, but I’m not allowed to miss 2 days in a row. This leaves room for special occasions so that I don’t upset myself and/or others while also making sure I stay committed to my habits.

Seems like Minh-Phuc has really thought a lot of this through! No wonder he's made such a big splash on Twitter so quickly. Follow @phuctm97 on Twitter to stay updated on his endeavors. And as always, thanks for reading.

One more thing: are you getting started on your creative journey? Take a page our of Minh-Phuc's book and get focused around the right habits to jump start your progress.

Here's two tools that can help. Creativehabitgenerator.xyz can help you discover habits that will set you on the right path. And Harold can help you track them so you stick with them over the long-term!