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Time lol
I simply don’t want to. I just like having a regular job. I don’t want to be a founder / business owner. I don’t want to be a CEO or SVP. I just want to do my job. Then go do my hobbies and not have to worry about “the business”.
Knowing the time that will be required to spec it all out, build and test etc vs the very high possibility it won’t lead to anything even though you may have a very solid idea.
Laziness
I get afraid that I’ll mess something up, along with maybe laziness or other distractions.
I don’t have any ideas, and I like my work-life balance that my 9-5 provides me.
I released my first project / product after watching a lot of Pirate Software on YT. The idea that it would not be good enough or people would have a lot of criticism on my programming always stopped me for releasing such a thing.
Everyone was positive, it is not used a lot, but hey I released something 😂
i dont have idea what to build 😀
I’ll “build a product” when I create something or plan to create something that solves a problem I can believe in.
Unpopular opinion, you don’t need to quit your job or side hustle to make products. You can actually still have hobbies and a life while starting a business. It’s not hard to get investment when you actually have a product people are using and is generating any kind of profit. Not the whole “we plan to make a profit later” bullshit that companies have been pulling the last 15 years.
Time and motivation
Time and motivation
The scope of what I’m trying to build is too big for one person. The subject matter can also get somewhat involved so I need to learn more. I tried looking at making an open source project for it and getting a team going, but the competition is fierce. I’m instead going to try to implement it in an already existing project instead.
Having a worthy idea in the first place.
Having ideas about products and then executing on those ideas are two different things. This especially if the project is a combo of hardware and software. You really need to have the time and money and frankly most of us have neither.
What I want to build is too difficult. It’d take 5+ years of my life (a 3D game).
Exhaustion from work
Time, for me I never know when a block of free time will fall into my lap, and then I never know how long it’s going to last.
I’m about 3/4 finished a project that I haven’t touched in 8 months because life has become so chaotic, and now I’m starting a new semester and trying to find jobs/get back in shape/devote time for my wife/etc.
At this point it would take me at least a day or two to re-immerse myself into the code base before making a plan for my next step.
I don’t understand how rest API’s work and all the tutorial videos I’ve watched haven’t been much help.
There are already enough products.
Compute
I just don’t really want to build my own product, but I have ideas for them all the time.
It’s such a gigantic undertaking, and when I think about my life, I’m just fine with the balance I have right now.
Rules for having a company that sells thing seems difficult. I’m also not good at selling things and hiring someone else to do the things I’m not good at costs money that I won’t have before I have actually sold something and I don’t dare taking a loan to get started because I can’t judge if my product will sell.
The rest of my life, basically.
Skill, and motivation. Thinking my age matters, and that the job market isn’t for me anymore (I know that’s not what this post is about, but it *is* relevant). I know that’s a fixable issue, I just haven’t fixed it yet. I’ve done freecodecamp, TOP, and most recently cs50x, but always hit a wall and put it off til next time I feel motivated. Last time it was the tideman problem in cs50x that put me off.
What I want to build is a DND character creator as my “product” (really just a practice project more than anything), and I have started and restarted so many times lol.
I don’t even know how to do UI other than html and css, so that’s usually how I do it, that’s one of the reasons I started cs50x in the first place.
Maybe it’s time to get back on that horse.
I wanted to build a simple beginner side project that is not a **product** per se. But just a website with users in it. something like a forum/blogging platform e.g. *phpBB* or *fluxBB*. The thing is I actually finished building the thing, but then I remembered the **legal** stuff like **privacy policies**, **terms of use**, **GDPR**, and the like.
Because people’s information is being collected and in a database, and also because I need production access to **AWS SES.** Before I can sent outbound emails to people for transactional purposes, since I didn’t want to handle all of that legal stuff. I just abandoned the thing, and it’s left sitting on my GitHub. I also didn’t want to deal with the trouble of asking for production access to AWS SES.
As a student and near full time bartender 💀 – time.
But I do want to make a digital synthesizer (and if that goes well/quickly then attach an AI model to it possibly if it’s feasible) as well as deeply expand a web application we are working on in one of my classes.
As far as struggles – learning frameworks (like JUCE for c++, or MERN for web apps ) and working my way through the architectural designs are most likely going to be my biggest hurdles. Plus I’ll have to figure out digital signal processing, which lowkey sounds kinda fun 😃
taxation removes the space, resources and drive necessary for progress in my projects.
Everything else around it. Like I can build a product, but building a business is hard. Very hard. You need market research, product design, sales, networking, customer support, bookkeeping, the list goes on.
On top of that my bills need paying so I need to work full time on top of it. Maybe if I was financially secure.
But yeah I tried it and burnt out, realised I had more fun just working my day job.
I have been building a password manager app.. Yes I know some exist already, but it was something I’ve been wanting to do for several years.
I needed something accessible to mobile and desktop, so a Web app seemed sensible.. Build one UI compatible with both. Then…
The more I learned the more I realised I had my hands full. I have in the end decided to have a basic option (server side encryption) and a client side encryption version. I barely knew java script before, and here I was learning Web.crypto libraries alongside java script. I started this journey barely wanting to touch java script, and now the code base is probably 50% java script.
So… There is also gdpr, privacy etc, and honestly I doubt I’d have the time managing this, along with keeping up with security news and updates… It’s one thing building an app, but then you have to test and maintain. So.. I can see why people burn out with work and personal projects. So far I’m coping, but it is quite an undertaking. Most of the time I am thoroughly enjoying myself, so it is not all bad, but it’s a lot of work. I wish I had the motivation to take it that step further, but to be honest, I’d probably be just as happy open sourcing and giving back to the community.
My courses at my college sucks. They don’t actually teach anyone anything. I know there’s things that I have to do for myself but there’s been many moments where lazy teachers would just say figure it out yourself. It hurts a lot and it’s hard because there many people creating misleading content and pressures me to buy their “classes” I’m a college student I’m super limited. I try asking seniors but sometimes it gets complex because everyone is just running around trying to figure things out.
The sentence “every line you code is a line you have to maintain”
Not going to spend the rest of my life coding for 16hrs/day
I love my wife
Doing something like this or starting my own business in some capacity is a huge deal for me because Im probably unemplaoyable traditionally due to my background.
But my biggest obstacle is, well I was homeless at the Salvation Army this time of year 3 years ago. Now I have a 2br apartment and Im only kind-of behind on rent, so I’m doing pretty good overall. But I still struggle with a lot of things mental health related, and I am my own worst enemy most of the time. I’m also working to get full custody of my daughter through the court system so I have a lot of shit going on.
Spent 4hrs outside today in a drive thru during rush hour in the city, troubleshooting signage for a gig IT job I don’t love. Also spent about 4hrs on public transit just to get there and back because I’m working on getting my license reinstated.
However I DID start a Frontend Mentor project on the train ride down, and did LeetCode the whole train ride back, so that’s a win! Going home to an amazing pot roast I made yesterday but got done too late too eat. Had my daughter all weekend like usual and that is always a gift. My phone and internet are paid. Get to take a rain day tomorrow cause the gig was outside so hopefully will spend the whole day on projects. I might make a 2nd anonymous github so I can share things on here.
Like I said. Doing good, all things considered. My goal is by the *end of this year*, the *whole ass year*, I should have 2-3 projects and at least one of them non-trivial
just because you are good at development wouldnt automatically make you good at business
I don’t have any ideas, and a serious lack of motivation to do it. I’ve completely lost my passion for programming as a whole, I feel overwhelmed with how much I should know to even land my first job. Hell, ever since I graduated I’ve felt like I wasted years of my life getting that degree for nothing, all to get a job that I could’ve easily got without going to college.
I could say lack of time is another factor, seeing that I work from 8-5, then add 2 hours of travel to that. Most of the things I just typed here are unrelated to your post, but I had to get it out of my chest
I have several projects of various sizes I really want to do.
Problems are:
– lack of knowledge of programming: so i spend time learning about how to learn programming in the little spare time i have & looking at huge range of courses available – im considering hiring a tutor – cos if i cud learn this myself it wud defo get made
– huge choice of everything: language, platform, IDE, tech stack, desktop vs browser based
– time
– concentration
adhd and time. adhd is characterised with time blindness, i aint got no clue how much time it takes to do things
Time. I’m a full time developer and do waaaay too much other stuff in my free time, so I only have time for tiny projects
Ideas. Also some imposter syndrome.
Perfectionism and fixed mindset
Having no drive or passion anymore cause all programming feels like work now
Lack of knowledge. Lol. But I’m gonna get there XD
I have not found an idea that motivates me enough, the closest ive come is an investing bot which I am currently working on right now.
People will mention time and that’s fair; however, what will set you back is finding the right people to collaborate that share your very same interests and enthusiasm to develop anything.
Time. This is as someone actually building something, my product is already outdated because it’s taken so long.
Job will sue me if successful app launched (strict non compete)
Don’t know what to build
I have a large ish project going, but I’m losing motivation to continue even though it’s 70% done
Decision fatigue