20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilience and sunk cost fallacy

Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by mcjkrw on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @01:47AM (#25655243)

I'm reviving an old abandoned project/product of mine which I failed to sell initially. This is pretty much how I justified rewriting it from scratch. It makes very little business sense, because I already had a finished product which I could try to sell right then and there, however, I just wanted to learn some proper software development. The project was a front-end app built in jQuery (I started it in 2015) and had terrible code quality in general. If I rebuild it, and fail to sell it, at least I will have some base knowledge on how to build a front-end app properly which I could re-use in a future product.

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Re:20 months, 2K hours, 200K € lost. A story about resilienc... by ChrisMarshallNY on Wednesday January 06, 2021 @07:27AM (#25657093)

Thanks for sharing that. I can def relate.

I wrote the BAOBAB server[0] as a "dissertation." It was an exercise to "retrain" my ship software Discipline.

Now, two years later, I'm using it in a brand-new application project. It's working amazingly well.

[0] https://riftvalleysoftware.com/work/open-source-projects/#ba...

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