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Re: Some things just take time

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My newest joke is: „I was able to vibecode those 5 apps I always wanted but never had time to code them myself … it is so different now because — I don’t have time to use them”.

That is wrong - the limit isn't time. The limit is you need to create a good ui so you don't need time. time is the limit for a fun game (see other comnents on how hard this is). However an app needs to be a good enough ui that it does something for you and often they don't. Paper todo lists still beat all the todo apps people try to make because the ui works for paper. Paper has large limits and so it seems there mu…

I think you didn't get the joke.

Idea behind the joke is that those apps were not needed at all in the first place, it is only that person from the joke had grand idea lurking in their head that those will be super useful. If those apps would be needed a person would take time to build them. Now building useless apps costs much less.

Better UI doesn't matter if something is purely a "wannabe application" in someones head.

Ergo, if you don't have time to build out some idea - that is a clear indication such idea is not good or not so useful - even if you still have an urge to build it, subconsciously you already know.

Re: Some things just take time

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Sent this I a friend. Their reply:

Is it a bad sign that I am only skimming diagonally the AI summary of an article called "some things just take time" because it feels like I already know the idea?

Re: Some things just take time

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Yes, but only if you have an ax to sharpen. With a lot of things it takes trial and error to make progress. You can take this pretty up high too - sometimes it takes building multiple products or companies to get it right

> With a lot of things it takes trial and error to make progress Way too often that is used as an excuse for various forms of laziness; to not think about the things you can already know. And that lack of thinking repeats in an endless cycle when, after your trial and error, you don't use what you learned because "let's look forward not backward", "let's fail fast and often" and similar platitudes. Catchy slogans and…

I see indecision and analysis paralysis far more. And yes, you do need to thing about things, but far too often I see people not do something because they're worried it's not optimal. But not doing something is far worse than doing something sub-optimally!

Re: Some things just take time

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I was reading an article about 5 days ago about time enthusiasts and i can't find it again.. can i anybody point me in the right direction? I believe i was reading this article around the same time. thank you in advance.

Re: Some things just take time

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My current project is the culmination 15 years of software development. I started out building a full stack framework like Meteor framework (though I started before Meteor framework was created in 2012 and long before Next.js). Then I ported it to to Node.js because I saw an advantage to having the same language on the frontend and backend. Then I noticed that developers like to mix and match different libraries/modu…

> I've been struggling to sell it ... they will value a one-shotted pretty UI over all these other aspects. I do not think that it's your competitors' pretty one-shotted UIs that are losing you your leads. FWIW your website: * Does not explain the benefits nor the feature-set of what your platform offers * Has a Docs page which seems to be a link to 6 sets of reference APIs (or similar) in disparate Github pages - th…

Thanks for the feedback. The part about the voting aspect of the pricing model is a good point. I will remove this and try to use a bit more conventional language whilst maintaining a kind of exclusive licence model.

Also I'll try to explain like "Estimated to be X times faster to develop and requires 70% fewer tokens than alternative stacks and easier to configure security."

That's actually realistic based on some recent analysis I did. I didn't have this info before.

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