Making
I want to make something. I have an idea and I want to bring it to fruition. To design it, then build it. All on my own. Right now, I can’t do it. Not all of it. There are too many things I don’t know yet. But I know enough to get started. I can design it. I can code the front end. I trust that I’ll be able to figure out the Javascript.
I don’t have a clue about the back end. Not yet. How to set up a database, handle requests, query the database, write to it. But I’ll learn.
So what is this thing I want to build? It’s something that I want, for me. It’s like Instapaper or Read It Later, but for people who lack self-discipline. Those apps are great, but they have one limitation—they have no limits. I toss stuff into Instapaper willy-nilly, knowing deep down that I will never have time to read all of it (and maybe not any of it).
It has become a bottomless pit, sitting there, being intimidating. I now have Instapaper guilt. Guilt about all those important articles that I should have read but haven’t. It’s become like a second inbox.
My app will be different. If Instapaper and Read It Later are giant backpacks that always have space for more stuff, my app will be a carry-on bag. You can put a reasonable number of essentials in there, but when it’s full, it’s full. If you want to put something else in, you’ll have to take something else out. That way, you’ll have to be very judicious about what you put in there in the first place.
Maybe it sounds like a daft idea to you. Fine. No problem. But it doesn’t sound daft to me. And maybe there are other people out there who will find it useful.
Time will tell.
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