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I wandered off and built an IDE

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Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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dhimes wrote: post #53
xyproto wrote: post #17

@anakic That was an enjoyable read! I have also tried qutting my job as a developer, tried making money by working for myself (and focusing on developing features instead of actually making money, same as you), then returning to a "proper job" as an engineer. There were many recognizable moments in the blog post. I once took a course in entrepreneurship, as a distraction from computer science, and the bottom line is…

But, as a developer, it's soul-wrenching and just feels wrong to try to sell something before something proper has even been made. This has been my biggest struggle.

Yeah, I think most developers struggle with this one.

I have a friend that is like he's born for being in sales. He loves money and have almost no moral qualms when it comes to selling (but paradoxically have a heart of gold when it comes to charity and being nice to people).

Some people actually enjoy making lofty promises for money. I guess that's part of why being in a team is a good idea.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by anakic »

tclancy wrote: post #56

This was a terrific read and it might just save my former girlfriend (and current wife) a ton of time at work each month!

Thanks and I hope you use of it, that would be fantastic! Let me know if you need any help, there's a contact email on the website. There's a sales and support address, but feel free to pick any one, they all go to me:)

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by anakic »

escanda wrote: post #19

I read the post and it's amazing you took the hard path. In regard to the product, first of all kudos, and second of all; you may want your users to be able to run analytical workflows. In which case embedding Firebird instead of SQLite might be cool. Just something I thought while reading the docs.

I've never used Firebird db so far. I have no idea how it differs. I will check it out, and possibly include it. QueryStorm already supports 6-7 different types of databases so one more won't be too difficult to add. Thanks for the tip!

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Post by akuji1993 »

synack wrote: post #47

Poor Anna

I hope the ex-girlfriend was either unrelated or a joke, otherwise, i don't really consider OP a good person.. There's only so much time you should spend instead of doing something with your loved ones.. I know, I'd probably drop my project at some point in the evening to get back to my girlfriend or wife.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by TeMPOraL »

jason_slack wrote: post #42

“You might be surprised to learn that in a developer’s life, there aren’t all that many chances to impress girls with your coding skills.” Ha ha. When my wife and I were new she asked to use my laptop and was surprised that it “had no icons”. (No window system). So I started to show her how to avoid using a GUI. 12 years later she uses a terminal about half of her time as a stock administrator.

Heh, still, chances aren't many.

So far I've managed to seriously impress my SO with my computing skills just once. People from her old company asked if she'd like a side gig, involving backing up years worth of philosophical Facebook posts of their boss (he's quite a writer), into Word documents (one per post). It would be ridiculous to attempt it by hand, but by applying a small amount of Lisp and pandoc on Facebook data export dump, I was done in 3 hours.

These days I mostly help her when she needs bunch of photos mangled into a format that can be accepted by upstream contractors; it usually involves some ImageMagick one-liners.

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Post by hitekker »

the-dude wrote: post #44
kelvin0 wrote: post #33

I really like this guy's tenacity and clever use of excel. But from my experience you can use excel files as an ODBC database source (Windows). https://stackoverflow.com/questions/15844633/using-excel-as-... Once you create your ODBC source from the excel files, you can run queries and use the language of your choice (Python,C# ....). I am pretty sure you can also insert/update rows and columns too. Wondering how thi…

See the Dropbox HN argument. Polish.

Excellent shorthand.

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Post by anentropic »

anakic wrote: post #14
kanwisher wrote: post #12

Your blog post should probably show a picture of the product

I felt like I should keep it about the story, but yeah, maybe a picture or two would be nice. I'll see about including a gif at the beginning.

The GIF totally makes it clear

This thing seems so obvious like it should already be a part of Excel - nice work!

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by TeMPOraL »

akuji1993 wrote: post #64
synack wrote: post #47

Poor Anna

I hope the ex-girlfriend was either unrelated or a joke, otherwise, i don't really consider OP a good person.. There's only so much time you should spend instead of doing something with your loved ones.. I know, I'd probably drop my project at some point in the evening to get back to my girlfriend or wife.

Life is complicated; if all that is true and even related, you don't know enough context to judge OP yet.

Re: I wandered off and built an IDE

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Post by faitswulff »

This was hilarious and utterly relatable. I've also built a lot of one-off tools for my pharmacist girlfriend (now wife - she learned SQL with me ;)

Congrats on the launch and the joining accelerator, hope it gains traction! It looks fantastic!

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