👨‍💻 Oleg Beloglazov

I stopped development of Touring Stories

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A quick report about what happened in June.

After releasing the latest updates of Touring Stories at the beginning of the month I lost motivation of working on this project. There are several reasons for this.

  1. I realized that this project doesn't provide enough value to people to make them use it for a long time. It is a cool tool for a specific use case, but it requires a lot of work to become a real product.
  2. I hit some limitations of the stack (react + react-router) that make it hard to implement the features I want.
  3. I found out that open-sourced geo boundaries data have a lot of errors and missing parts in data. That makes it hard to work on the project.
  4. Unfortunateley, I've lost interest in the project.

I've written down the options that I have:

After some consideration I decided to choose Option 2 because I don't want to lose the expertise that I gained in the niche and I have promising ideas.

First, I tried to make a small spinn-off project as a part of Touring Stories. I wrote about it in the tweet. I haven't published it yet because I miss a good photo for a blog post. 🤦

Then I stopped using Twitter for a while and focused on learning. I read some books (one, two) and blogs (one, two) about entrepreneurship and indie hacking. It gave me hints on what to do next and returned motivation. I returned back to Twitter and decided to start a new project.

I will write about this project in the next post. Stay tuned.