Comments on: Being a short burst coding guy

By: Gerald

Gerald — Thu, 05 Jul 2012 12:46:18 +0000

I have exactly the same problem. I would bet my GoDaddy account has more inactive domains than you though. Once I complete an exciting feature for a site, I just loose interest in it. I think the best way for us to avoid this is to have some sort of workflow for our projects. But anyway, at least we had fun while they lasted.

By: kevzettler

kevzettler — Tue, 03 Jul 2012 03:04:44 +0000

“It seems that I really need to reap the reward of my efforts as soon as possible, and I’m quite not sure how to get out of this pattern.”

This is exactly correct. What you need to do is learn some lean startup, or customer development practices. You need to build a minimum viable project. The smallest thing possible you can build and then get it in hands of users as soon as possible.

This will not only tell you if its worth continuing. But get you excited and make it easier to continue working

By: Nigel Stirzaker

Nigel Stirzaker — Fri, 15 Jun 2012 07:48:54 +0000

I like the idea of putting stuff “in the wild”, must help focus the mind; as long as people start to use it

By: Berzemus

Berzemus — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 08:19:30 +0000

I know that too. However, I learned to be a post-perfectionist, and I try to release as early as possible, keeping things simple. The pressure of knowing I’ve got something in the wild for people to see that isn’t quite as perfect as I’d like it to be suffices then to motivate me for the last stretch. After that I iterate to add what’s missing, but at least the project is out.

I also take my time: I’ve got a wife, kids, a day job and a house to take care of, so I only have a couple of hours in day for my own projects, when I’m not too tired. After all the pleasure is in planning, designing, learning and coding, so I might at least relish every moment of it.

By: Jason Carter

Jason Carter — Thu, 14 Jun 2012 02:10:29 +0000

I know the feeling, let me know if you everfind a method to help the focus once the ‘paart of a project is done.’

By: Nigel Stirzaker

Nigel Stirzaker — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 19:25:34 +0000

I’m currently trying two ideas to help me with the same problem. Firstly I’m trying Kanban, in an effort to force myself to finish what I’ve started. Secondly on of my projects on my Kanban board is to “make setting up new projects quicker” e.g. build scripts, logging, dependancy management. Unfortunately my WIP queue is currently full of stuff that has nothing to do with development

By: Henrik Eiriksson

Henrik Eiriksson — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 18:45:51 +0000

Work on something -you- need. A tool that will make your own life 340% better. That will help keep your interest piqued and alive. Choose necessity over cool.
Just like with software design patterns, challenges that people face in life follow common patterns. Chances are a lot of other people have the same problem and welcome your solution.

By: Leonardo Diaz

Leonardo Diaz — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:14:55 +0000

I have a dedicated job, so for my personal projects I have just a little time, like 2-3h/day and some of them remains on concepts and ideas, and when a cool one appears one has to die. XD

Do you have any advice?? any strategy?..

By: Sammy

Sammy — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 16:05:18 +0000

> “the domains tab is a land of broken dreams & unfinished projects”

That is so me. I know other people that are the same too.

By: Elie

Elie — Wed, 13 Jun 2012 11:34:49 +0000

It’s like you see into my soul. I’m the *exact* same way ,as if my programming skills have the attention span of a five year old. It’s extremely hard to get out of that funk.