Re:Ask HN: What are you building this weekend?
by andrewstuart on Friday October 08, 2021 @10:29PM
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I spent about a year and a half building a SAAS project - very sophisticated, lots of moving parts.
About 18 months ago I realised I was building a solution without a problem - I was building something technically cool that I could not work out a business model for. So I dropped it.
Recently I think I've worked out the business model. So now I'm trying to get the damn thing running again - it's got many interacting servers and bits and pieces so trying to get it all to work again is a challenge.
Fortunately I tend to write reasonably good notes that would be unintelligible to anyone else but make alot of sense to me, and these are helping me get it going.
Also I wrote ALOT of build and config scripts, without which the task would be impossible.
About 18 months ago I realised I was building a solution without a problem - I was building something technically cool that I could not work out a business model for. So I dropped it.
Recently I think I've worked out the business model. So now I'm trying to get the damn thing running again - it's got many interacting servers and bits and pieces so trying to get it all to work again is a challenge.
Fortunately I tend to write reasonably good notes that would be unintelligible to anyone else but make alot of sense to me, and these are helping me get it going.
Also I wrote ALOT of build and config scripts, without which the task would be impossible.