I Reach the End of My TODO List
Reaching the End
Since I got my Claude Code subscription, I was super happy. I could complete a project in an evening, without doing mistakes even if I was tired. It makes my time worth it.
Before that, I did not want to start and keep a project unfinished, because the next time you come back you have forgotten what you were developing, and you end up spending a lot of time figuring out where you got stuck.
Therefore, ideas that I wanted to build started to accumulate.
They were mostly ideas related to blog automation: not a big project, but a project that will save my time.
With Claude Code, I built a dozen projects from scratch last month and upgraded some older ones (I am only talking about personal projects, not professional ones).
Now I am reaching the end of my list.
It feels very weird.
I was craving time to code, and now there is a black hole in front of me.
I still have some things to do—finishing deployment of a few apps on my home server, doing updates here and there—but nothing that makes my brain fuzz for ideas.
So I have the question “what to do next?” which is unanswered (I did not asked LLM for the answer).
What to do Next
At least, I see some possible directions:
First is “go back to reading and learning”: This is a good way to spend and enjoy your time. Related to that, I plan to make a “ZIM bookshelves”, with content scraped from the web to read offline on several topics: AI, Machine Learning, low-tech (yes, low-tech, or arduino/esp32 stuff). Also, playing with agents makes learning harder: you do not learn the same thing at all, because you are not debugging the code yourself or developing new coding patterns.
Another direction I was thinking about: the project I built so far are single-user projects, build by me for me, not trying to catch stars on GitHub. What would a project valuable to others look like ? Would it be enjoyable to build ? And useful for me ? I watched some videos about digital marketing on the subject. This is easier to say than to do, finding the pain points of your “potential users”.
Last, I could create a platform: I see on Hacker News people running their businesses alone, just with automation. At minimum, I would do the exercise of setting up a platform, going through the process of making it alive, setting up the whole stack-website-database in the cloud. I know that I learn “step by step”: If I do not cross the first river, I cannot see or imagine crossing the second one. I need to know what it cost to follow the path.
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