What is worse than buggy side project?
A side project which is still in your headI like many others developers get nervous when having my code out there in the public domain, what if someone reads the source code and thinks I’m a terrible developer? News flash no one will and even if they did I don’t think you should care about their opinions.
Remember you are the one who decides if a side project is successful or not, don’t worry if you’re the only user. As with many of my side projects I’m the only user, if you have an idea and you think it would be useful create it.
For example dumbtab, my personal blog, and rss2go to name a few are projects I created which I wanted to use. Do I look at some of the code and think god who wrote that, of course but that is a sign that I am growing as a developer.
I remember a few years ago thinking that I’ll get judged by my peers but most of them don’t care. Your biggest critic is yourself, you just have to ignore any self doubts you may have and just start creating. You have to start somewhere, so if that is a silly little tui app you have in mind or even a SaaS all I have to say is best of luck.
Thanks, Nathan.
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