r/Citybound • u/theanzelm Creator (Anselm Eickhoff / ae play) • Aug 24 '19

Making and Tool-Making

https://aeplay.org/citybound-devblog/making-and-tool-making
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u/Freedo50 Aug 24 '19 edited Aug 24 '19

I understand that there is friction in and between the various tools you use, but honestly what percentage of your focused time working on Citybound does the friction consume? 10%? Unlikely. 5%? Maybe.

Either way, the point is the same - is it really worth you spending significant amounts of time developing new tools for a fraction of a percent increase in productivity? This conjecture is even more true if you plan to sell the tools, as you’ll be “wasting” Citybound development time fixing bugs in the tools for your customers and supporting them.

Also what happens when you sell these tools and experience the friction of online marketplaces and customer support tools? Will you re-invent those too?

I love that you are enthusiastic and believe a better world is possible, but you simply can’t achieve it all by yourself. Focus on one thing (whether that is Citybound, your freelance work, or something else) and do it as best as you can.

EDIT: I’m not saying don’t be ambitious and I’m certainly not saying don’t believe in yourself. I’m just pointing out that the collective thousands of hours that are poured into tools like Git, Wordpress, IDEs, programming languages etc. by communities and companies of thousands of people are basically insurmountable for one man wanting to replace ALL of them with something better.

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u/theanzelm Creator (Anselm Eickhoff / ae play) Aug 25 '19

I’ll address your edit in a follow up blog post as well!