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Building In Shadows

· 3 min read
Jonas Lagoni
Jonas Lagoni
The Codegen Project creator

If you ask Fran, I am the expert at building in the shadows... It is almost scary how good I am at doing it.

I keep trying to remind myself that for others to use it, they have to know that it exists!

But the reality is... I am building it for myself first and foremost, you come second. I know, how dare I put you there ;)

Every time I encounter David's updates about EventCatalog, I keep getting that nagging feeling, you should also keep everyone updated on what you are building. Because the reality is while I do build it for me, I am by far not the only one encountering that problem I am trying to solve.

So why don't I?

I think I still have the idea that people will find the tool that fit their problem when they encounter it. No matter how many times I promote the tool 🤔

So what really is the value proposition of spending time doing it. I guess at some point if you want to earn a few bucks it might be worth kickstarting it and making it grow slowly through exposure instead of a natural growth over a long time.

Also, once you are a few months in since the last update, it feels like the mountain grows making it harder and harder to provide the update, because more and more changes have happened.

I need to figure out how to escape it... Just get on with it and do it, sounds like the best approach, no matter how long it's been.

However, I think that truly I need to either 1. accept that I am building this for myself and ignore others or 2. find joy in sharing the progress and seeing people using it beyond just the natural growth of the repository.

Reality is I love people using what I build, I just hate not building ;) With the platform (https://code-forge.net) coming along, I feel like it requires a shift, but I don't think I am mentally ready for it.

I am however, stoked about what this tool can do and the future it has in store. Support for EventCatalog, fully remote file support, handling of unbundled documents, multiple language support, and of course then the platform to wrap it up for fully developed SDKs using this library as the backbone.

Happy building folks!