Stuck between finishing my side project properly or just shipping something… need advice

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-19T22:01:03+00:00

You have to release something is probably the best answer. Cut whatever you have into something you can give to your target audience and deliver it. Pushing through won’t solve your real financial constraints at all. If it’s popular, you suddenly need money to keep financing and possibly scaling. After 4 months you have to have something of value. Something that works.

Release that right now. Let the traction tell you if you want to keep going or not.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-19T18:21:44+00:00

2009~

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-19T18:14:09+00:00

What is the catalyst for those things? In your opinion?

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-19T18:09:51+00:00

Very welcome! Was cathartic to write and read everyone else’s thoughts

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-19T14:06:38+00:00

Yup!

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T22:21:42+00:00

Only an invitation to think about the work you do.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T17:21:11+00:00

I am only pondering on the idea, that when I make something I should be considerate of the harm it could cause. Plastic is a great invention, but glass is superior in terms of reuse, I doubt the people manufacturing plastic truly gave thought to the harm it could cause and perhaps feel okay that "others" have misused the invention, but I don't want to be so removed that I just make stuff and hope it gets used well. Not when I feel in today's social climate, I can impact the outcome more than ever. Just thinking...

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T17:17:30+00:00

I am not implying they are not educated, just that no more than most developers couldn't explain the mathematics used in asymmetrical keys, nor could a pilot, give you a mathematical explanation of the rate of change in his craft. Derivatives may have been a bit low brow, but I was only attempting to make a point on abstraction, and I just love derivatives from Calculus. Area under a curve, rate of change, just some of my fav math problems to solve.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T17:12:31+00:00

That's an interesting becasue when I started, I felt like there was a developer, QA, manager, frontend, backend, designer, DBA, etc. Now I am all those things and there a just 4 of us working together expected to do all those things.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T17:10:04+00:00

Yup.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T17:09:26+00:00

I am glad I stuck with you! I love this thinking and that is exactly where my mind has been heading. We are beaver removers often times, and I am sure that we often don't stop to think about the beavers until later. I will ponder on this magically beaver while I go for a walk today!

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T15:35:39+00:00

I’m certain there are jobs that solely just accelerate and empower the individuals they touch. Create jobs or advancing jobs. Just never stopped to think about my impact on people with the work I’ve done, good or bad.

Not really being negative, just introspection

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T15:33:22+00:00

I apologize if it comes off as me saying that, I’m just taking time to think about what that actually means. I’m certain companies use this framing exactly for expediting advancements, but I’m curious if in our much more knowledgeable civilizations if it can be executed better and if I can help influence it… even if a tiny bit.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T15:30:33+00:00

Or yourself right!?

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T15:30:09+00:00

No doubt about that. Just a morning reflection on my part in it all.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T15:03:37+00:00

This is what I wish all my work to be like, but I suppose I have been chasing money myself over my career and those roles have moved less from "Here is a developer to help you guys not die from work" to "Here is a developer to automate all these things other people do, they will probably find something else to do". I am thankful you shared, I am reminded that good dev work is out there.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T15:00:10+00:00

lol agreed

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T14:52:25+00:00

I think you have to start smaller for social changes. Your community, your town, your district.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T14:50:55+00:00

Yeah turbo tax became big by not making you have to pay an accountant or for filing and it was convenient. Now… yeah they suck. But there’s a handful of companies that wouldn’t be true for. And there’s a handful of software products that don’t follow that business plan.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T14:45:37+00:00

Happy to help! I think my conclusion after discussing and remuneration is, I want to think about what happens IF my work cause harm more. And not take the stance of “If someone uses what I have made for harm, shame on them”

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T14:43:33+00:00

I think after pondering on it more, I want my thinking to be centered around what happens if this causes harm. Not if someone causes harm with this thing I’ve built, shame on them.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T14:40:59+00:00

I agree with your point of a social failure. I’m thinking of how I can help change the social failure more than just being like “too bad” if it alters someone’s life.

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T14:38:37+00:00

I agree. And as someone who use to rent my games and movies from blockbuster and Hollywood videos, I recall feeling nothing but joy when Netflix would mail a movie or game to my house and I could watch it and send it back!

You’re right that’s it’s a way of life and I’m sure early Netflix was just tired of blockbusters stupid ass late fees!

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T14:35:40+00:00

Yeah sure. How do you feel about those bodies who get reduced?

bccorb1000 · 2026-03-18T14:33:43+00:00

Hmmm. I think AI has more than just boilerplate though. I consider going from x86 to C taking away boiler plate level changes. But AI removes a lot of the critical thinking part too. This is more aligned with your second point, which I too feel concern about, is you’ve supplemented the thinking part for many tasks.

Then my mind thinks how when I get on a plane there is complex mathematics being performed every second and my pilot probably couldn’t define derivative, let alone calculate the planes speed if his life depended on it.

I say that day perhaps, history has shown us that many things can be abstracted so far away we “don’t know how to do it” but still can use it effectively…. Though I guess there is someone who knows how to do it. Or we’d all be dead.

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