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Circa 2018, I went deep into investigating ADHD and whether I had it or not. I ended up "interviewing" a rather diverse group of people, from authors, teachers, and ADHD coaches to psychologists and other doctors. During this time, I was reaching out to many people, managing schedules and appointments, and eventually publish the interviews. The "reach out" to "interview" ratio was something like 100:1 and took a lot of management. This was my part-time hobby, I guess. My full-time gig is a software engineer at a bio-tech company. So, I wrote some basic web software (PHP/Symfony) to manage and track the whole process. It took around 3 months to write the code, though there was no set beginning and no set end. The code was started when I became overwhelmed with the manual aspect of tracking everything. The code was done when I figured I had done enough to manage and automate the process. Talking with a few people after the fact indicated very high interest in the software I had written. And thus began the journey to convert it to multi-user. I started on the multi-user conversion and, maybe because I tried to make it do everything and then some, have not since finished it. The code is on my private GitHub, partially converted to multi-user, slowly rotting away (needs library and core updates). What does it do? Manage the process of cold lead acquisition, follow-up interactions and onboarding, and eventual publishing of the resulting interviews. How did I make it? PHP/Symfony. How much time spent making? About 3 months in my spare time. How often do I use it now? No longer used. |