Yes, you could (maybe) write a proof of concept in a weekend. Working that out to a nice smooth UI with a good onboarding process, documentation, getting decent hosting with good SLAs and speed across multiple regions, and building it out into a company that can market the product to end users so they will actually find you, have a helpdesk and legal team to handle the inevitable disgruntled user and so on and so forth and make it run in a way that’s profitable is nontrivial and requires skills beyond being a good coder and requires months, nay, years of work.
I’ve used a whole weekend (or longer) to debug an obscure bug that turned out to be a one-line, or even a one-character fix. Sure, making that fix only took seconds, but finding where to do that takes a lot longer, and that time is also time that’s spent on the project.
Would it kill Dan to put a date on his blog posts?
Based on previous submissions and this confusing page I’m
suggesting it’s from Oct 2016.What does a date add here?
Most of what Dan writes seems to be pretty insightful observations that are essentially timeless.
It adds that I read this when it came out but I can’t tell until I reread half of it to see if he’s revisiting a topic or it’s a repost.
Yes, you could (maybe) write a proof of concept in a weekend. Working that out to a nice smooth UI with a good onboarding process, documentation, getting decent hosting with good SLAs and speed across multiple regions, and building it out into a company that can market the product to end users so they will actually find you, have a helpdesk and legal team to handle the inevitable disgruntled user and so on and so forth and make it run in a way that’s profitable is nontrivial and requires skills beyond being a good coder and requires months, nay, years of work.
IME: the engineering is relatively straightforward by comparison to this.
The execution is where the value to society is realized.
My dude.
Thank you.
Perhaps the whole site is a subtle trolling of people who don’t use Reader Mode in their browser.
I’ve used a whole weekend (or longer) to debug an obscure bug that turned out to be a one-line, or even a one-character fix. Sure, making that fix only took seconds, but finding where to do that takes a lot longer, and that time is also time that’s spent on the project.