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How to prevent stagnation while building products alone
With a lack of external motivators, a solo-developer needs to proactively manage their interest in a project. Time-bound prediction games can help.
Here lies the monster: When you’ve no one to share the burden with, when there’s no steady reward, and when the fantasy gets lost in an ocean of details, moving forward can feel like a drag. When work stops or slows to a crawl, knowing the entire journey depends on her, the solo-developer feels like a guilty captain shamefully lost at sea. Your time constraints, your distractions, and your need for progress, if regularly acknowledged, means you’re intelligently burning the only fuel that drives solo-development: You, the sole developer.
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