by Allyedge on 2/8/23, 10:57 PM with 3 comments
Usually, I do not know what to code at all. People always come up with crazy projects that amaze me, yet I never get any sort of ideas to build, no matter how much I think or explore.
But for example, last week I wanted to make a project where I could combine GitHub with Discord, where you could find collaborators.
Now, although it sounds nice, I didn't manage to get started with it. I didn't know if I should maybe try microservices while I am at it, which language I should use (I've been liking Rust, Go and Elixir lately, TypeScript and Python are kind of annoying at this point), and so on. I also didn't know what kind of UI I wanted to code, and nust ended up giving up.
At this point I feel like perhaps I should stop trying to find a web project idea, and look for other things, but even there I can't get anything in my mind to code. Maybe my project ideas are just too large scale for me? Since that is kind of a project a large team would build. But on the other hand, why would I build a yet another small project?
I don't know, I am confused.
How can I get out of this state?
by SirChainsaw on 2/8/23, 11:20 PM
What helps me is reminding myself to just start coding _something_ small and very very simple, however imperfect. If I didn't I would concoct hugely scalable and secure architectures and systems in my head. I would go on and on like this for hours and possibly days. It would only really stop when I came up with another idea for a project.
Twitter/Facebook/Netflix etc etc weren't built from scratch like we see them today; they evolved from imperfect, probably insecure, probably slow, probably unmaintainable code.
Just try to write something and take it from there.
I think lots a "techy" people experience this so don't beat yourself up and I'd be interested to hear what others do.
by jzombie on 2/8/23, 11:55 PM