Over the past few months, I’ve been mostly working on adding new features to https://wfh.team, and I plan to continue to do that for a while. But lately, I had been feeling like there is something missing from my project.
I use a simple todo list to keep track of all the things I want to do in the future. One thing that was on my list forever and kept getting pushed down the list was:<p>- Give Back<p>This was basically on my vision board since I started my first side project. But every time I pictured it in my mind, I imagined myself running a big company that could afford to give back to the community in a big way. I always thought about this with the mindset of “Put on your oxygen mask before helping others”, like my business needs to be very stable with a growing MRR before I can even think about giving back in any way and In some cases that might be true, but that doesn’t mean there is nothing I can do.<p>In fact, if I learned just one thing after doing many side projects over the past few years, it’s to take small steps when taking big steps feels too hard or even impossible.<p>So I recently started revisiting the idea and thinking about how I can do it on a smaller scale. I wrote down my thought about what I was looking for:<p>1. No matter how small my contribution is, I wanted it to be made toward a big problem the world is facing right now, like hunger, homelessness, climate change, etc.<p>2. I wanted it to be somehow aligned/related to what I’m doing at WFH and what my mission is.<p>3. Something that is affordable for me at this stage<p>After some digging around and looking into how other companies are doing a similar thing, I found the perfect match for what I was looking for<p>- For every job you post we plant a tree<p>I couldn’t think of a better way to breathe life into my project by actually creating life! I’m very excited about what comes next and looking forward to making the planet a greener place.