Re:Allan Odgaard's Latest Comments on TextMate 2
by hello_moto on Saturday May 29, 2010 @06:28PM
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I have never used TM in my life but I found Allan's comment is very interesting in terms of a life of a software product written by one person at his own will.
A few points:
- His experience sounds like "Second System" syndrome.
- One-man show is quite risky psychology-wise unless you can motivate yourself endlessly
- Perhaps it's time to hire another developers and move on to a more leadership role. Coding might be fun, but the risk of getting burn out is high; one way to prevent this is to do non-coding tasks for a while and once you miss your ol' coding lifestyle perhaps that's a good time to scratch your own itch again with hobby project. Who knows, it might become your second product, expand your portfolio.
A few points:
- His experience sounds like "Second System" syndrome.
- One-man show is quite risky psychology-wise unless you can motivate yourself endlessly
- Perhaps it's time to hire another developers and move on to a more leadership role. Coding might be fun, but the risk of getting burn out is high; one way to prevent this is to do non-coding tasks for a while and once you miss your ol' coding lifestyle perhaps that's a good time to scratch your own itch again with hobby project. Who knows, it might become your second product, expand your portfolio.