Stumbled upon the idea and logged it

I was up to my ears working on a solo startup that I'd barely been able to raise any money for. I'd already rewritten my app's tech stack three times—very early on abandoning JS for a Ruby on the back-end for productivity reasons, then moving to Elixir for performance reasons, and finally ripping out all the Twilio APIs I was relying on for WebRTC since they raised their prices by more than 100x on me.

Using Elixir was great, but there weren't a lot of libraries past the very basics. I ended up writing a lot on my own. I wrote my own Auth, my own API wrappers for half a dozen services and worst of all, I had to make my own UI components. Of all the things I needed to spend time on, I didn't want to be spending it on that.

Then somebody shared Laravel Spark with me. I'd heard of it before and had a very vague idea of what it was, but when I took a good look at it, it blew me away. I saw right away how much time it would have saved me if I had something like that for Elixir.

I was busy, so I wrote a couple of sentences about it in my journal that afternoon and didn't think about it again for more than a year.