That won't happen, because time to market is the biggest obstacle between the developers and the monies.

If leftpad, electron, Anthropic, Zed, $shady_library$ gonna help developers beat that obstacle, they'll do it instantly, without thinking, without regret.

Because an app is not built to help you. It's built to make them monies. It's not about the user, never.

Note: I'm completely on the same page with you, with a strict personal policy of "don't import anything unless it's absolutely necessary and check the footprint first".

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thefounder 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

It’s not always about money. It’s also about the time of the developer. Even for a hobby project you may burn out before to actually deliver it.

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bayindirh 2 days ago | parent | next [-]

I'll say depends. Personally, my hobby projects are about me, just shared with the world because I believe in Free Software.

Yet, I'm not obliged to deliver anything to anyone. I'll develop the tool up to the point of my own needs and standards. I'm not on a time budget, I don't care.

Yes, I personally try to reach to the level of best ones out there, but I don't have a time budget. It's a best effort thing.

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thefounder 2 days ago | parent [-]

In reality you are always on a time budget that is correlated with the output of the software you develop.(I.e is it worth it your time?) I’ve found out that the most important thing is to get feedback early even from yourself using whatever software you develop. If you develop a small effort piece of software you can ship it before other stuff is starting to compete for your time. But if it takes a year or more before even you can make any use of it I guarantee you that the chances of shipping it diminishes significantly. Other stuff competes for your time(I.e family, other hobbies etc).

	▲	bayindirh 2 days ago \| parent [-]
		I think we tackle the same problem in different ways. For me, if something is not urgent, I do it in a best effort way, and the shipping time doesn't matter. I generally judge whether I allocate time for something or not depending on the utility and general longevity of the tool. I hack high utility / short life tools, but give proper effort to long life tools I need. As a side-effect, a long life tool can start very crude and can develop over time to something more polished, making its development time pretty elastic and effort almost negligible on the long run. For me shipping time is both very long (I tend to take notes and design a tool before writing it), yet almost instant: when I decide that the design is enough for V1, I just pull my template and fill in the blanks, getting a MVP for myself. Then I can add missing features one at a time, and polish the code step by step. Currently I'm contemplating another tool which is simple in idea, but a bit messy in execution (low level / system programming is always like that), but when it's design is over, the only thing I'll do it is to implement it piece by piece, without no time crunch, because I know it'll be long-living tool. I can time-share my other hobbies, but I have a few of them. I do this for fun. No need to torture myself. And, I can't realize my all ideas. Some doesn't make sense, some doesn't worth it, some will be eclipsed by other things. That's life, that's fine.

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mock-possum 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

Times are monies though

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iugtmkbdfil834 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-]

This is wild shift that AI allows now. I am building stuff, but not all of it is for public consumption. Monies matter, but, so does my peace of mind. Maybe even more so these days.

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dijksterhuis 2 days ago | parent | prev [-]

i guess it's a market thing? because when i build stuff in a B2B scenario for customers, it is about the customer's users. Because the customer's users are the money.

at least, that's my attitude on it :shrugs:

	▲	bayindirh 2 days ago \| parent \| next [-]
		> Because the customer's users are the money. That's exactly what I'm talking about. The end desire is money, not something else. Not users' comfort, for example. That B2B platform is present because everyone wants money. Most tools (if not all) charge for services not merely for costs and R&D, but also for profit. Profit rules everything. Users' gained utility (or with the hip term "value") is provided just for money. Yes, we need money to survive, but the aim is not to survive or earn a "living wage". The target is to earn money to be able to earn more monies. Trying to own all. This is why enshittification is a thing.
	▲	dnnddidiej 2 days ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		The customer is the money. If the customer cares about its users then they are the money. Then you have the user is the product the customer is the advertiser situation. You please the customer enough to have a product to sell to advertiser. And this before we even touch deceipt. E.g. lying to the customer to make more money. companies work for their shareholders kinda they work for where the power lies. even shareholders get fucked too.