Should We Build

It took a week to build this first version of "Should We Build".

I worked mostly nights and weekends, and I coded the whole thing in using next.js, react, and mobx. In hindsight, I realized that parts of my flow with mobx takes too much time.

Time spent:

• 3 hours for the implementation
• 3 hours to integrate the design, and build the visual parts,
• 1.5 hours setting up the projects, domain name, and release.

One of my goals is to build to project quickly and enhance my workflow.

For this side-project, I hired a freelance designer I worked with to come up with a design I can implement quickly. I'm glad I did: I spent much less tinkering around the design. And went straight to implementation.

In my daily job as a Freelancer, I spend a lot of time helping my customers come up with their tech-stack. One of the main questions is, "Should we buy this service or build it ourselves."

I started working on this project to provide a simple interactive framework to let my customers, other engineers, and I come up with the "right solution."