I have spent three years building a project that should have taken three months.
For a long time, I told myself I was just ensuring quality. I was building a robust architecture. I was making sure the edge cases were handled. In reality, I was terrified of launching. I was hiding behind my IDE because as long as the project is 'in development', it cannot fail. Once you ship it, the world gets to tell you if your idea is actually useful.
If you are an indie developer and your project has been at 90 percent completion for six months, you are probably trapped in the same loop. Here is how to break it.
The Trap of the Perfect Stack
When we build for a company, we have a manager or a product owner telling us what the priority is. When we build for ourselves, we often prioritize the tech we want to learn over the product the user needs.
