Board Genius has Launched!
by MattThat final 10% takes 120% of the time! After a year of part-time work, Board Genius is finally live. Total amount of work was about 230 hours.
What did I learn?
Not a new lesson but a great reminder that being at the whim of other people's APIs is a scary place. Jira, for example, is so tedious to wrangle and the documentation is somehow verbose yet not helpful! Sometimes you can't do what you thought. Other times, you have to jump through 10 hoops to achieve a simple task. This is a problem I'll have to keep dealing with over and over as I add more integration and maintain existing ones.
The savior of the project is unit testing. Without that, Board Genius would have been broken so many times in ways that are very hard or lengthly to test/debug. Unit tests keep an eye on tedious and hidden areas of the application logic.
So all the hard work is done now, right!? Oh wait, what's that about marketing? ...
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Sound good. I like your idea to make the board genius program. I have started the similar project for my motherboard review blog, you can see here https://imotherboards.com/
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I agree that's the most sensible option. It's not always possible, though. In my situation, I would be managing a team of developers working a project for my client who uses Jira. In that situation, there are a few reasons for me to use a different tool:
- I don't want my team of 5-10 developers to have to keep track of all the noise going on in my client's Jira - I want them focused.
- I want to be able to add tickets for my devs that my client doesn't need to see or keep track of
- I want my developers to be able to have technical discussions (i.e. comments on issues) that the client doesn't see
- I don't want my client talking directly to my developers via Jira
- I remember a client where each Jira user cost $25/month. My client doesn't want to pay hundreds of dollars a month to add my team.
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