Ask HN: How do you deal with an extensive list of pet projects?
I’m a full-time software developer with a constantly growing list of pet projects and an increasing inability to actually get any work on done of them.
At this very moment I have ten repositories on BitBucket that mostly have just READMEs with notes describing what the project is about, though some have a bit of actual code as well. One of these projects stands some theoretical chance of being worthy of a startup some day, but they’re all mostly things I either have a use for or want to build to learn something.
The problem I have is something akin to paralysis of choice: I think about most of them here and there and sketch something out or jot down some notes, and sometimes even write some code, but I lose a fair bit of time I could spend being productive on deciding what to work on.
The net result is that I don’t get much of anything done, and it’s incredibly frustrating.
I imagine there must be others who can relate, and I’d love to hear about how you’re dealing with this (and how successfully).
At this very moment I have ten repositories on BitBucket that mostly have just READMEs with notes describing what the project is about, though some have a bit of actual code as well. One of these projects stands some theoretical chance of being worthy of a startup some day, but they’re all mostly things I either have a use for or want to build to learn something.
The problem I have is something akin to paralysis of choice: I think about most of them here and there and sketch something out or jot down some notes, and sometimes even write some code, but I lose a fair bit of time I could spend being productive on deciding what to work on.
The net result is that I don’t get much of anything done, and it’s incredibly frustrating.
I imagine there must be others who can relate, and I’d love to hear about how you’re dealing with this (and how successfully).