{"id":2768,"date":"2010-09-22T13:26:13","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T17:26:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2768"},"modified":"2010-09-22T13:26:18","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T17:26:18","slug":"if-not-you-then-who","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2010\/09\/22\/if-not-you-then-who\/","title":{"rendered":"If Not You, Then Who?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/kevinhoctor.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/if-not-you-then-who.html\">Kevin Hoctor<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/kevinhoctor.blogspot.com\/2010\/09\/if-not-you-then-who.html\"><p>It&rsquo;s easy to feel discouraged because your software is in use by hundreds instead of thousands or thousands instead of millions. It&rsquo;s easy to feel overwhelmed because you don&rsquo;t have the time to see your vision in full bloom. It&rsquo;s easy to give up and let someone else deal with creating the solution, but don&rsquo;t do it. You&rsquo;ll be cheating the world out of an experience only you can provide.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&rsquo;ve been happily using <a href=\"http:\/\/nothirst.com\/moneywell\/\">MoneyWell<\/a> for about a year now. Hoctor talks about designing it for himself, and I can tell that it wasn&rsquo;t designed <em>for me<\/em>. I don&rsquo;t use the signature features: direct connect banking, envelope budgeting, or cash flow management. However, he&rsquo;s built an application that&rsquo;s also flexible enough to work the way I want. Even though you may not have reached your vision (yet), you may still end up solving a problem that someone else had.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kevin Hoctor: It&rsquo;s easy to feel discouraged because your software is in use by hundreds instead of thousands or thousands instead of millions. It&rsquo;s easy to feel overwhelmed because you don&rsquo;t have the time to see your vision in full bloom. It&rsquo;s easy to give up and let someone else deal with creating the solution, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2769,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2768\/revisions\/2769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}