tommaxwell

After spending 7 months building a startup with my friend that I subsequently chose to end development of, I'm looking for some work to make some extra money and keep my mind working.

Since moving on from my startup I've found myself under-inspired, under-challenged, and feeling lazy with no commitments or projects to work on.

I'm mostly a front-end dev, but taught myself Rails and built out the backend of the startup I was working on. I hosted it on Heroku with a PostgreSQL database. It wasn't really necessary, but for our blog I chose to use a Rails CMS, and hosted it on Digital Ocean with Nginx and Unicorn managing requests.

Below are some examples of my work.

My personal blog, which is responsive -- it takes inspiration from other blogging platforms but I wrote all the code from scratch. http://blog.tommaxwell.me

My personal site, which is also responsive and written from scratch: http://tommaxwell.me

I also have some projects on my Github profile that I worked on. Chakra is the Rails app that I wrote all myself. http://github.com/tommaxwell

I have a solid understanding of OO JavaScript, CSS3, responsive design, Rails, and more. Preferably the projects I'm looking for are front-end oriented.

You can also find me around the web: http://twitter.com/tommaxwelll http://medium.com/@tommaxwelll

If anyone has any small projects -- maybe even some small work here and there that you need done -- I'd love to talk to you.

tommaxwell95@gmail.com

I'm desperately in need of some help here. Just a few months ago I stopped building a startup with my friend that I had began 7 months earlier, and ever since then I have been simply languishing. No longer with the commitment of a job or big project to keep me busy and challenged, I haven't been doing much of anything. I've traveled some to see friends, tinkered away on some small JavaScript projects, and blogged a lot -- but that's about it. Most days I just read books or browse Twitter and HN.

I have no clue what I should do next. I'm only 18, but graduated high school two years early and joined a startup immediately upon graduation. So this is really the first time I have been without any commitments. I was thinking about traveling the US some more and finding companies that would be willing to exchange web dev work for room and board, but I haven't started looking into that much yet.

My hope with posting here is that I'll find someone that has gone through a similar experience of languishing and getting nothing done. I feel lazy, embarrassed to meet people for fear of them asking what I'm up to -- because the answer would be nothing. Anyone have advice on how to move forward? How to find inspiration or motivation?

I'm flying into Seattle on the 9th and will be in-between Seattle and Portland until mid-February. Any fun startup/technology meetups or events going on? I've never been to the area for very long, so interested in checking out the startup community.