30 Ships, 30 Days
🛳️✨ 30 Ships, 30 Days
🧾 The Challenge:
Create 30 small, complete, shippable artifacts in 30 separate days. ✨
Rules
🧠 Core Intentions:
- Build trust with my creative self through repeated completion 🧩
- Practice finishing over perfecting 💅
- Embrace constraints to unlock clarity and action 🎯
- Grow my public body of work in ways that feel light, visible, and FUN!!! 🌈
🛳️ What Counts as a Ship?
| Rule | Description |
|---|---|
| 🛳️ Solo ships, no batching! | You can’t make multiple artifacts in one day. Each ship deserves to make a solo debut on the shipping harbour. |
| 📆 Made in ONE day | BUT you better take BREAKS. This is about 30 full creative sessions, not a 30-day grind. Don't clog the shipping lanes. |
| 🧩 Made with approved tools | No rabbit holes, no shiny new tech, no hunting Moby Dick. 🙅♀️ Stick to the status quo-o-oooooo 🎶 |
| ✂️ MVP | Each ship must be the simplest functional version. Functional paddleboats > 1/4 done cruise ships. Done > Perfect |
| 🌐 Must be published and linked | Every artifact must be uploaded somewhere shareable (e.g., itch.io, blog, website, email wall). "Done" = discoverable. |
🧰 ✨Creative Constraint Toolbelt✨:
| Tool Type | Allowed Tool |
|---|---|
| Web Games / Mini Apps | PICO-8, Twine |
| PDFs / Guides | Canva |
| Quizzes / Interactive flows | Twine |
| Video Creation | Canva |
| Email Capture | MailerLite |
| Hosting | itch.io, my VPS |
| Spreadsheets | Sheets, Notion |
| Plus, obviously, my homegirl Chattie of GPT! |
💭 NOTES TO MYSELF, LESHGOOOOO:
- You don’t need to impress people with size. Completion is rare and powerful.
- Most people never finish anything. Any ship, no matter how simple, is ✨already magic✨. It's a SHIP 🛳️ choo chooooo foghorn
- You can come back later and upgrade any ship, but only after the ship's made it to the harbour.
- How many ship metaphors can I include in this page? Should keep editing it until it's nearly non-sensical with nautical metaphors lol. To anyone reading this page, send me your metaphors hahahahaha.
- Constraints are your creative besties — they turn overwhelm into momentum.
- As Nicole van der Hoeven said in that video you re-watch all the time, learn in public
- As Zsolt of Excalidraw fame says, make it visual
- As Cal Newport says, GO DEEP and insert Greek mythology references
The SHIPS 🛳️✨💖
- Ship 1: Keep Kiwi Happy micro-game - 2025-07-08
- Ship 2: Sense-sational Spellbook - 2025-07-10