Year 1 - Getting the first version out that worked for me and my colleagues.
Year 2 - Cleaning it up enough to promote wider use. Documentation.
Years 3-5 - Minor bug fixes only as I thought qStudio solved the problem.
Years 6 - I realised restricting qStudio to only 1-2 database technologies was foolish. Major change to support many more databases. Improved generic SQL highlighting. Added a partial dark mode.
Years 7-8 - Minor bug fixes.
Year 9 - Added a proper Dark Mode and support for many themes by using FlatLaf. Now looking properly modern.
Year 10 - Realise that I'm not fully solving the problem. That actually for most data analysts I should support creating the analysis (pivot table) and improve exporting (real excel export, not just nicely escaped CSV).
There were more learnings, like I should definitely have went fully open source at the start. It's harder to do later.
There were more learnings, like I should definitely have went fully open source at the start. It's harder to do later.