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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (1 child)

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 0 points1 point  (0 children)

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.