Does It Make Sense‪?‬ Does It Make Sense?

I know it sounds harsh but is your idea worthless? It depends. It's the initial fuel and motivation to start building. You shouldn't fall in love with it though. Instead, fall in love with the people and the problem you're solving. Can't bring yourself to do that? Your idea might've been worthless after all!

I sat with Heiki Riesenkampf of Acapela (https://acape.la/) for the first time to have an honest talk about business. We discussed why Welder didn't take off, his competing with Slack, or the difference between US and European engineers.

We’ve gone through the most popular ones for Elixir (LiveView), Ruby (HotWire), PHP (LiveWire), and Python (Unicorn, Reactor, Sockpuppet) and also some language-independent choices (htmx).

Server-side rendering is getting better with modern libraries, you can have just a single codebase (let's say in Django or Rails) and add similar interactivity that you would get with frameworks like React! 

We discussed our experience with unproductive days and how we feel when they happen. We also talked about how rituals and habits help us to stay productive and get back to being productive after unproductivity happens.

Should you keep going or is time to let it go? There is no simple answer, but there are some variables to take into account when thinking about killing your idea. Oh, and context matters. More than anything.