Social Igniter

When to properly launch Social Igniter has been something plaguing me for the last 5 months. I could have launched something 5 months ago, but I didn't. Why? Because I was afraid it wasn't exciting enough or substantial enough or flashy enough (yet) and it would be after I finished just this one more feature or two new features or implemented a whole new authentication setup, etc... the list goes on and on... months have gone by and there are still a few more features I feel are "essential" before I really launch, but thankfully due to the upcoming Open Source Bridge that is happening in my backyard (Portland OR), I kicked my own arse in gear enough push something out. But let me say, it feels dang good to finally start talking about what I'm working on.

What ended up happening? I dug myself into a hole trying to build this huge platform and codebase and ended up in an isolated fortress of perfectionism, which in my mind is not really "open source," as it may as well have been a private codebase- open source means collaboration and collaborating means working with other people! Aside from 1 month of help from the talented front end coder Oscar Godson it has just been me slamming away on this beast of a platform for almost a year and man the late nights with the screen get lonely! It's much for fun working with other people.

So, from now on, any software projects I do will have a super early pre alpha launch as my friend Aaron PK said "Talking about it is just about as important as building it" and I think there is much wisdom in what he says.