Ahh this was from one of the infamous YouTube Rewinds right?
Yeah don’t let this stop you! If you do the side project for fun and/or learning, just go ahead and build stuff. Don’t look at other projects too soon so you give space to your own creativity. But perhaps compare stuff in a later stage.
My phone’s about to die, but I’ll start typing the rest of the tips for your friend:
You accidentally a word there.
This is the way