How to deal with a lonely Solo-Prenuer journey
Stephen Firecrow Silvernight
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Hi all, I'll try and keep this as light hearted as I can. I'm one of those people who is often observed as "beating to a different drummer". From 3D graphics as a kid, music, changing my name legally from Stephen to Firecrow, when I was 18. The code I write is "odd" and "oddly magical".
I got tired of watching my ideas take a back seat so I've gone out on my own starting Compare Basic.
It's been 8 months without a single code review, I commonly struggle to get people to "think bigger" without sounding condescending. (yeah right... no one ever recieves that message without feeling snubbed).
I'm over 50% of the way to receiving my crowdfunding, and it is truly wonderful that people have contributrd that much so far.
But it does get tough at times.
What has worked for people at times, when the conviction of sitting on something amazing, and the knowledge that doing the hard thing can also be the right thing, what have people done that works during the times when that just doesnt't feel like enough?
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Ignas Vaitukaitis@zer0tokens
AlphaCorp AI
Your CV and experience are amazing. I also had a look at your website, and there is absolutely no excuse for a developer of your caliber to have that frontend, man.
I think to beat the loneliness of going solo, you should already be speaking with your users. Also, "8 months without a single code review" is a huge red flag for potential investors, co-founders, or anyone who might want to join or help you.
I recommend spending more time here on Product Hunt. I'm pretty new here, but some people just get shit done so well, and you get motivated by it yourself.
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@zer0tokens Thank you Ignas, I very much appreciate the encouragement, does this meam the frontend is not good enough? just making sure I understand.
The main reason I've been code-review-less is a challenge finding engineers who still think in binary flags, and memory efficiency, as well as interactivity composition, I've never turned down a request to see what I'm doing, the engineering worldhas been too busy using node.js and python and beleiving that is enough.
@zer0tokens I took you feedback to heart and redid the site layout with more content, https://comparebasic.com, and I put the front end framework I've made out with an open source MIT licence https://templang.org, wish me luck!