stephenyoung

"I have no doubt it'll get a great percentage of the Goliaths' sales"

Been learning again and again, you are going to need to map out your marketing plan and probably bring on a co-founder with a strong business background. Having the greatest product in the world will not save you from a poor approach to acquiring clientele.

Get some community validation that your product is as great as you claim, and change your plan from payback to your ex-employer and towards how you can enter their market as a strong competitor and carve out your own place. You're destined to fail if all you're going after is revenge.

Definitely. Not to the extent that you've basically in your mind got every piece of jQuery mapped out, but you should at least build the ability to jump into the source code and see what is going on, and know the base concepts. For the same reason it is advocated to learn C but develop in something higher level - you need to know what pointers and memory management are to adequately grasp why the things you are developing are reacting in certain ways. I generally crack open the source code whether or not I'm having troubles, I think seeing and dealing with other people's code is one of the most beneficial (and humbling) habits a developer can have.

two minutes in, it tried to re-open a dead conversation from a week ago and argue with the other twitter user.