#5 Let's the test on hold
An update that I owe to myself as a way to charge me a little bit.
It's like when you are on a run and you feel good, then you stop for a rest, so fatigue emerge and coming back to the run becomes harder.
For two months I spent almost all my evenings working on Drinklytics, and so studying, because that was my goal.
This was not like a full time job, I used to write some lines of code and then continue watching a series or a movie with my wife or having conversations.
In any case, I must admit that it cost me effort to develop the app in the midst of everything else.
Ok, but why the analogism with the run?
Because to release the first app on Google Play store, you must before start a closed test with at least twenty people for 14 days, and this made me slow things down.
Twenty people is a ridiculously small number, if you can't find such a small group of beta tester maybe you should reconsider the whole project.
Ok, you catched me, I am still looking for four or five people, but I consder Drinklytics a learn-by-doing side project so I don't care how much time I will need to complete my test.
I might promote it better or ask some people who I know would be happy to help, but that I don't want to bother now.
The point is that forcing me to reduce my effort on developing, waiting for the closed test, made me feel all the accumulated fatigue from all aspects of daily life that Drinklytics had helped to increase and, at the same time, conceal through the enthusiasm and stimulation associated with the new project.
I have tasks on my backlog, I know what kind of features I would like to develop, but this sense of waiting put me on hold.
Is not a matter of life and death, but I want to react to that.
I think I will resume work on the project step by step.
Rethinking the Drinklytics website (mainly CSS) has been the first and this post is the second one.
The next ones, not in any particular order:
- init the versioning system, I should have done it from the beginning
- document the code
- clean some testing code that is still there
I also must admit that i feel so little confortable using social network to share my journey.
It feel so natural writing this post on my blog, but so unnatural sharing it on BlueSky or Mastodon. As if it were a promotion only.
I don't want to prevent any options at the moment, beacuse I also had some good interactions on socials. The evaluation is not completely negative.
The way I use socials could also be the problem, they are tools and maybe I am using them wrong.
Something to think about.
I'd love to hear any feedback, so feel free to email me. Thank you for reading this.
