Comment by thefounder

I built an ecommerce solution with payments, REST messaging, email servers(imap/smtp) and affiliate advertising(with its own payments, reporting, ACLs etc) as well. I managed to get an alpha state for the full solution with both a desktop and mobile web frontend(SPA and all that).

But then the mobile apps became a thing so I started working on a native app as well...that was just too much..I burned out and got bankrupted as well so I would advise against giga projects. At some point it becomes just too much work...

I learned a lot but the waste is just not worth it. The time is too important to reinvent so much.

Now I work only on "small" projects only(max 6-12 months)