We have entered the era of building enterprise scale projects for your own personal use. I can do things it took teams years to build as a hobby project over a weekend.
So much of that "took years" is because they didn't know exactly what the "years from now" state they were building in advance. Another huge chunk is because they started getting customers and had to respond to customer needs, demands, scale, bugfixes, preserve uptime, etc.
And even then, "enterprise" was often a dirty word in these circles. The over-engineered would-be-swiss-army-knife vendor that was mediocre-for-everyone but excellent for nobody.
I have built many tools in the recent past for myself. None of them need to be "enterprise scale." Most of them would be worse for it because the agent output suffers when the pile gets deeper and it's just adding more piles on top.
the very notion that everything has to be 'impressive' to you is ridiculous. You still don't understand the era of personal software and everything has to be a windows replacement or it wasn't worth building to you?
I'm making my own azure blob storage explorer, notes mac/android, db client etc.. its not about being 'impressive' but being personally suited to individual needs.
We've entered the idler era of building
I can't believe I haven't made that connection myself tbh
We have entered the era of building enterprise scale projects for your own personal use. I can do things it took teams years to build as a hobby project over a weekend.
So much of that "took years" is because they didn't know exactly what the "years from now" state they were building in advance. Another huge chunk is because they started getting customers and had to respond to customer needs, demands, scale, bugfixes, preserve uptime, etc.
And even then, "enterprise" was often a dirty word in these circles. The over-engineered would-be-swiss-army-knife vendor that was mediocre-for-everyone but excellent for nobody.
I have built many tools in the recent past for myself. None of them need to be "enterprise scale." Most of them would be worse for it because the agent output suffers when the pile gets deeper and it's just adding more piles on top.
What's the most impressive and useful thing you have built then?
the very notion that everything has to be 'impressive' to you is ridiculous. You still don't understand the era of personal software and everything has to be a windows replacement or it wasn't worth building to you? I'm making my own azure blob storage explorer, notes mac/android, db client etc.. its not about being 'impressive' but being personally suited to individual needs.