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by samsquire 1121 days ago
For me YMMV, but writing is thinking. I journal my computer software ideas everyday in the open on GitHub.

Write down your ideas and practice ideation. Go create an "ideas" repository on GitHub and every day in README.md create a markdown heading of a thought you're having. Make it private if you're worried people shall steal them. Please use my ideas but point people towards my repositories, as I want people to try things out and see them in the world.

I don't get obsessed about a single idea for more than a few days. I just try keep myself open to inspiration based on what others say and I focus on what qualities I want (elegance, beauty, efficiency, preferred capabilities, intuition)

if you want inspiration, there's also halfbakery https://www.halfbakery.com/user/chronological

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For me it's opposite, the moment I start writing it down is when I start to build it, I get it mostly built in my head before I start putting down code or wire.

With some components having basically "don't even think about it once the prototype is in and you can do more educated guesses.

> if you want inspiration, there's also halfbakery https://www.halfbakery.com/user/chronological

That's funny, I remember having few ideas that I thought were interesting but someone just.... did them, I just didn't knew. So I started browsing.

> https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Backup_20tester#1583186965

That's a feature enterprise backup software kinda have; you can run verify job that do that , and full "restore environments from backup" is already a thing in big enterprises

Some, sadly mostly in form of config validation, also have the "verify whether files are correct in batch mode"

> https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/Backward_20pricing#168063049...

That's kickstarter.

> https://www.halfbakery.com/idea/URL_20Powered_20Computer#167...

I've so far seen few apps in k8s environment doing that. Like for example in Victoriametrics' vmagent you can instead of config post an url that will be polled

I tend to write about what I want and then do experimental short projects for 1 evening to a few weeks.

Then I try integrate the separate projects together.

Sometimes I just jump into a project based on an idea, usually on repl.it

See https://replit.com/@Chronological