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comment by seatraveler

Definitely Hand It! | The Web's Hand Gesture Manual which is a blog I started and have been running since late December. I mostly post about the gestures myself, but I have also gotten submissions from some friends (and a student in Estonia!). I've achieved some minor blips of little guy fame through different posts on reddit and some twitter shares. The coolest was when The Daft Club (daft punk fansite) linked to my recreation of daft punk album covers with their signature pyramid hand gesture and I saw a user make the gif their signature.

It's important to relish even relatively minor success when you're doing these kinds of projects.

I have a lot of fun developing it, working on it daily (like Seinfeld's productivity habit chain), noticing just how ubiquitous yet under-the-radar hand gestures are, learning about graphic design, web administration, content creation, headline writing, talking about it with friends and new people I meet. I would love to take the project to the next level, but alas I'm a near-broke college senior searching for real jobs so it'll have to remain my side project for the time being.