Almost a match

We all have had the experience.

Even in dating, “where you meet someone, you get along with fine, you have a few times together but then you fall off without even noticing. It happens gradually…you stop seeing each other that frequently, then you stop seeing each other, less messages until the point there are no messages at all”.

And when someone asks about that someone you say things like “she was fine, and we were good, but there was not that chemistry between us to keep us going I guess.” Or something like that.

This is how all great software gets built too.

You have a problem, and you try a few solutions for it. You might run with them for a while.

Yet none of them do exactly what you need, and sometimes they do underperform on the key things you care about - by a lot.

So, you put on your building cap, churn out the software you need - that matches your problem 1:1 (or as close as it can be).

And use it for a while.

Then think, “If I need it, and I use it - and works so well for this problem…maybe other people need it too.”

And not long after that thought, you make it public.

We need more of this, because you can do things. And these things matter. That’s how open source works, that’s how the best products and services get built. And we need more of this.