Update 4
I wonder if this competition will just become a reminder to me and Patrick that we need to be more structured about our free time in order to finish side projects and still balance everything else we have going on in life.
To be fair, we both have full-time work that we need to maintain, and it’s the holidays so both of us have been gone at different points. Time restraints aside, I’m still curious what could have been done differently. Every time either of us did anything for the GPSO, it did seem largely to be either ideating or doing very small dev tests. Potentially it would have been helpful to have some “checkpoints” throughout the course of the competition, like:
- End of week 2: Have a landing page
- End of week 4: Have the ability to accept credit card payment
- End of week 6: etc
It couldn’t be overly specific, but it would ensure that either progress is being made or you forfeit the race early.
As an aside, one positive outcome is that I’ve been coming up with a lot more project ideas that I believe could provide real value to other people. A new idea I thought of would be to automatically create change logs from git repos. We could ingest the diffs within a given time range, and create a summary based on just the changes. We wouldn’t need to pass the context of the entire codebase, but probably we’d still need to provide some base context about what the software is doing.