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there goes my motivation (lemmy.world)

submitted 1 year ago by neeshie@lemmy.world to c/programmerhumor@lemmy.ml

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[–] outdated_belated@lemmy.sdf.org 13 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

give space to your own creativity

This is key. One will inevitably make many different design and UX decisions vs whatever preexisting projects are out there, making one’s project more suited to at least a few contexts than anything preexisting.

In addition to being plain demotivating, looking at other stuff too early basically encourages one to just make the same decisions as others, becoming much more like just a second implementation of what already exists.