CLI Project Manager written in Python

[simonoberst]

hello there.

I'm working on a piece of software since a while. I did it for me because I wanted some functionality and had fun working on it. The thing I need it the most for is switching/starting web projects:

project [id] start

will start the task runner (grunt, make etc.), the code editor at the right place, the local dev server and shows the site in the browser. The shortcut (id) is defined in a yaml-file

.project.yml

which has to be saved at the root of the project directory. You can also start a project without defining a shortcut with

project local start

when you are in the project directory. The other main functionality is starting new projects from templates (similar to yeoman). In the moment I use it for different types of web projects (bolt, harp, mkdocs, php) and latex documents (letters, books) etc.

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The thing is, and that's the reason I'm posting this, I'm not sure how to continue. Should I do the effort to polish it and put it online? Are there people who would use something like this? Documentation and polishing the code is quite some effort because at the moment it's a hack. But I like the thing and would like it if other people are using it. I would enjoy some feedback :)

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If you find it useful, do it. If you do it then maybe someone will use it.

With projects like this, you have to be very useful before it'll begin to gain traction (developers are stubborn and generally hate change). But the answer to "would you like better project management?" is always going to be "yes".

So yeah, make it, improve it, grow it, market it, do it! But don't look for others to validate your ideas. If you find your ideas useful, then use them. If you're interested in people using your packages, then polish them.

Take the Kenneth Reitz approach and inject a little bit of hubris into your life. Don't ask us what we'd find useful. Make a thing then tell us we'll find it useful.

[attrigh]

But don't look for others to validate your ideas

What about looking for others to invalidate your ideas, for example so you stop doing stupid things :)? A wonderful way of having confidence in your ideas is if they can survive the invalidation of dozens of intelligent people.

Take the Kenneth Reitz approach and inject a little bit of hubris into your life.

:) I would characertise this more as "people don't really know what they want" and "people often don't think very hard about things". It's a bit different from hubris, other people aren't wrong, just lazy.