Andre Torrez is the man behind my current all-consuming obsession, Filepile. Here he explains the subtle difference about writing a great idea you had in your blog, and just doing it
I built FilePile in a couple of hours at work. The original design had no user accounts. I had never heard of a “remix”. I wasn’t even familiar with Fark or all the sites mentioned in this Wired.com article. I just thought it’d be neat to see how much bandwidth I could waste. It was an exercise in excess. I didn’t even think about it, I just did it.
And that’s what’s got me so bothered about people musing in their weblogs about projects they’d like to do. Stop talking about it an just build it. Don’t make it too complicated. Don’t spend so much time planning on events that will never happen. Programmers, good programmers, are known for over-engineering to save time later down the road. The problem is that you can over-engineer yourself out of wanting to do the site.