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by freehunter 2213 days ago
I agree, trying to scratch your own itch is complicated and frustrating and if you really actually need whatever you’re building, chances are you could solve the problem in an easier way. After that, you’re not scratching your own itch anymore, you’re making it easier for others to scratch the same itch that you’ve already solved. It’s just not that easy to say “build something you need”.

Chances are you can do it in an Excel spreadsheet without writing a single line of code, but where’s the business in that?