I stopped development of Touring Stories
PublishedA 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.
- 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.
- I hit some limitations of the stack (react + react-router) that make it hard to implement the features I want.
- 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.
- Unfortunateley, I've lost interest in the project.
I've written down the options that I have:
- Option 1. Continue working on Touring Stories. Add more features, and put more effort into marketing.
- Option 2. Start a new project in a bicycle touring niche.
- Option 3. Start a new project in a different niche.
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.