Why I'm Not Shipping New Features This Year

Shipping new features for users and watching them gobble it up is the greatest Joy of being a coder. I quit my day job to bootstrap a SaaS to maximize this Joy in my life. I didn't expect Joy to wane and wither away by year 7. While it's been supplanted by other positive developments like more customers and increasing revenues, which makes the situation tolerable, I miss Joy in it's most raw form.

Where is my time going instead?

In no particular order...

Fighting antibot measures

To move faster in the early days, I chose to depend on third party websites for core functionality instead o...