I’ve been building sites (way to many to count) since 1995, and have coded sites that build sites, forum software, blog software, and so on, so I feel qualified to comment here.
First, yes, you are under estimating the challenge involved here. I know I did!
Second, a key thing I learned (from many mistakes) is to not code anything until I had a solid plan for marketing whatever I was planning on creating. I’m retired now, but if I had my career to do over I wouldn’t even learn coding, but hire people for that, and focus on marketing. These projects live or die by marketing, not coding.
That said, if you think you’d enjoy coding and want to explore it for fun, then don’t worry about any of the above, and just enjoy your nerdy hobby. Just be realistic with your expectations, and don’t expect to have much traffic or many users unless somebody on your project knows how to build an audience/user base.
I’m way beyond dating these days, and 40 years in to a happy marriage. From that experience I can guess that having two philosophical people in one house may be one and a half too many. :-) A highly EA person might find it wise to balance their energy with dates who are on different channels.
So, you could perhaps start a dating site for EA people who are fed up with EA people. :-) Just kidding...
Interesting thread!
I’ve been building sites (way to many to count) since 1995, and have coded sites that build sites, forum software, blog software, and so on, so I feel qualified to comment here.
First, yes, you are under estimating the challenge involved here. I know I did!
Second, a key thing I learned (from many mistakes) is to not code anything until I had a solid plan for marketing whatever I was planning on creating. I’m retired now, but if I had my career to do over I wouldn’t even learn coding, but hire people for that, and focus on marketing. These projects live or die by marketing, not coding.
That said, if you think you’d enjoy coding and want to explore it for fun, then don’t worry about any of the above, and just enjoy your nerdy hobby. Just be realistic with your expectations, and don’t expect to have much traffic or many users unless somebody on your project knows how to build an audience/user base.
I’m way beyond dating these days, and 40 years in to a happy marriage. From that experience I can guess that having two philosophical people in one house may be one and a half too many. :-) A highly EA person might find it wise to balance their energy with dates who are on different channels.
So, you could perhaps start a dating site for EA people who are fed up with EA people. :-) Just kidding...