I had a micro-heart attack this week.
I was in the middle of working through some deep implementation issues on tgo when I stumbled across a project called Goja. My stomach instantly dropped. I got this sudden, heavy sense of dread that someone had already built exactly what I’ve been pouring my life into for the last several weeks.
If you've ever tried to build something unique, you know that exact feeling. It’s the fear that you’re late to the party, that your work is redundant, and that you've been wasting your most precious asset: your time.
I stopped what I was doing and spent a chunk of time getting Goja set up so I could run benchmarks. I wanted to compare their results against my results.
The verdict? We are faster. But more importantly, Goja is not what I am building.
