Ask HN: How Did You Come Up with the Idea for Your Most Successful Projects?
3•dokiaro•4mo ago
How did you come up with the idea for your most successful projects - the ones where you learned the most, enjoyed yourself the most, or earned the most money?
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bsnnkv•4mo ago
My most successful (also most enjoyable, also earned me the most money) project is a tiling window manager I wrote for Windows, which I have now also ported to be cross-platform on macOS
I just built what I needed for myself - there was nothing that fit my needs when I started using Windows
Similarly, now that I'm using macOS again, I want a seamless cross-platform experience, so I made the same project cross-platform
I don't think my brain is wired in such a way that I can come up with project ideas that are divorced from something I personally have a need or desire for
bsnnkv•4mo ago
I just built what I needed for myself - there was nothing that fit my needs when I started using Windows
Similarly, now that I'm using macOS again, I want a seamless cross-platform experience, so I made the same project cross-platform
I don't think my brain is wired in such a way that I can come up with project ideas that are divorced from something I personally have a need or desire for