[twrkit]

> Single-developer projects and codebases don't get anywhere at Google.

As a Googler working on a single-developer project / codebase, I'm sorry to hear that you didn't get traction. Very grateful for my mostly autonomous role :) There are tradeoffs of course, but to me the reduced overhead of no meetings and greater creative control are worth the trouble of an increased workload and providing support.

[nostrademons]

Good luck. I really loved the experience as well, it's just that the project got canceled when my management sponsor moved to a different department and his replacement was like "No more one-off projects." The funny thing is - I'd been warned by some very senior and very accomplished (outside of Google) people that independent projects basically never launch, but since my manager was very supportive, I'd discounted the warnings.