Laeserin @Laeserin - 10mo
We're probably launching #Alexandria v0.1.0 this month (so keeping to our Road Map yay!), and we started in July, working part-time. Although, it's a whole platform, with multiple sysadmins and a data analyst, and a new SDK, and stuff, and multiple new NUDs, and not just a list microclient, or something. But still, building it is way harder than building the original Kind 01 clients because there are so many "Basic NIPs", now, and they're complex. You have to build all of them and then add your own twist on top. Have to really have a tight story board, unless you're a lone wolf, and lone wolf development has become onerous. And there's no real market for microclients because it's much easier to add one more feature to a bigger app, than to create a new app containing that feature. The friction of moving end users from one app to another is too high. Making a market for plug-ins or extensions, is better, so we're concentrating on that. We realized that, early on, after I did some market research, and decided we need to Go Big Or Go Home. We're sticking to enterprise-level development, where we have a strategic advantage because we're professionals and used to handling larger projects.
Another thing is that you need to keep a team together, long enough to get a few releases out. Even if you make it to v0.1.0 launch, doesn't mean you'll make it to v1.0.0. As far as I know, hardly any Nostr apps have made it to a full release, and I think the fluctuation in the team members is part of it.
The Kind 01 mega apps are like MS Teams, Jira, or VS Code, basically, and most devs would be best-off making a plug-in for them, rather than trying to compete with them.
