Considering a clear distinction between "slowly growing up" and "quickly expanding in all directions", that you managed to grow up at all proves that you didn't have too much.
In 2015, I wrote the backend for a registration/ticketing/admission system for our (the company I work for) non-profit. They put on yearly galas in a far-off US state. The system utilized QR codes from printed and electronic tickets. The system was used once and royally failed due to connectivity issues. We relied on the venue's wi-fi and had cellular backup. It worked during on-site testing but failed once the crowds formed. Attendee's couldn't load their e-tickets and we couldn't get a response from the servers as tickets were scanned.
Everything sounds so simple until we try to explain it.
If the emulation is contained inside the universe being emulated, do you think the emulated universe includes the emulation contained within it? Does the emulation now contain another emulation? If so, now many emulations?
Circa 2018, I went deep into investigating ADHD and whether I had it or not. I ended up "interviewing" a rather diverse group of people, from authors, teachers, and ADHD coaches to psychologists and other doctors. During this time, I was reaching out to many people, managing schedules and appointments, and eventually publish the interviews. The "reach out" to "interview" ratio was something like 100:1 and took a lot of management.
This was my part-time hobby, I guess. My full-time gig is a software engineer at a bio-tech company.
So, I wrote some basic web software (PHP/Symfony) to manage and track the whole process. It took around 3 months to write the code, though there was no set beginning and no set end. The code was started when I became overwhelmed with the manual aspect of tracking everything. The code was done when I figured I had done enough to manage and automate the process.
Talking with a few people after the fact indicated very high interest in the software I had written. And thus began the journey to convert it to multi-user.
I started on the multi-user conversion and, maybe because I tried to make it do everything and then some, have not since finished it. The code is on my private GitHub, partially converted to multi-user, slowly rotting away (needs library and core updates).
What does it do? Manage the process of cold lead acquisition, follow-up interactions and onboarding, and eventual publishing of the resulting interviews.
How did I make it? PHP/Symfony.
How much time spent making? About 3 months in my spare time.
My parents used the search to find documents on the local system. Now it defaults to searching the interent. Event more insane is now the 'close' button location has a button that opens your search in the Edge browser, where my parents still try searching for local documents. Getting lost ... so many levels deep.
Mold on meat == bad? Not entirely. I'm fine and I've on occasion and unintentionally eaten moldy beef jerky. Probably the water content determined mold strain prevalence.
That's mold on a preserve. It's a completely different ecosystem. My personal theory is the stuff that kills us, usually will also kill an animal, so the really deadly fungi and bacteria usually don't form until after the animal has died and the immune system has stopped functioning. That's why raw meat from a fresh kill is generally safe but if the meat is left alone for too long it becomes poisonous.
I am working with a partner to create something similar in a different vertical.
What is your tech stack? What payment processor are you using? Is everything automated, from payment to payout? I imagine as an MVP, some parts are manual. Love to hear more.
We use Flask and Python with Postgres, and for the payments we use Stripe. Basically everything is automated, apart from withdrawing your winnings. That part is still manual for now as we haven't had the time.
