February 2022 - One year round
I just got a renewal notice for the Strackt domains, which means that I've been working on this project for a year now. It's a good time to reflect on the progress made and challenges faced over the past 12 months. 🤔
The Log
Origins
The early devlog, brought over from projectstrackt.dev. The month-by-month story of building strackt solo — from the first idea in 2021 to the first working pieces. Kept as written, for the full record.
Doing it right makes you run
Investing in refactoring saves you more time in building
Reverting experiments
Experiments fail. Time to learn, clean up, revert and get on with a new idea.
Keeping it on the bus
Aligning and aggregating all the data streams between layers requires a lot of communication
Two tracks combining
Interacting with Strackt should fundamentally be a two track interaction; API and a front-end UI
A little tooling and training
Learning on the fly and dusting off my skills
Dogfooding
The best way to simply test an MVP is to use it yourself
Connecting the pieces
Hooking up all the separate pieces makes things click into place
Reboot
When a blank canvas is needed, just start fresh
December 2021 - That didn't go as planned
Nine months in and I am not where I want to be with this project. Let's have a quick look back and then move on to progress in the future.