Comment by gavmor
1 year ago
You don't think you're cutting off your nose to spite your face? Maybe all those user-hostile features are a small price to pay for the resources to ship the "vital few" that are positively game-changing for your customers. For me, it's an open question.
You have a point. May I give my experience?
I have spent years building my stack. This stack gives me extreme velocity.
For example, I built my own localization. I query the OS for the locale, but beyond that, everything is mine. This allows me to make more assumptions and move faster.
In addition, this allows me to cull tech debt aggressively. [1] After years of this, when other codebases are molasses, mine is clean and easy to extend.
In other words, I did the hard work upfront, before getting clients. I hope this will give me the ability to add the "vital few" with few resources.
[1]: https://gavinhoward.com/2023/12/code-is-not-technical-debt/