After reading the essay titled ‘Just say “No” to the Pet Project’ in The Developer’s code, I’ve decided it’s now or never! I just have to constrain my pet project, and launch! Otherwise it’ll never see the light of any smiling faces. So there you go - I will bring you TastyFinish.com early 2012.

Here’s an extract from The Developer’s code by Ka Wai Cheung. Highly recommended.

Every one of us has a pet project archive. Software we started and saw part of the way through, but never quite finished. Code that began strong but came to a screeching halt because more pressing issues came up. Other work got in the way, or, we simply lost interest.

Pet projects fail when there are no time constraints and nothing’s on the line if we don’t succeed. When a launch date is “one of these days” we likely won’t be finishing it anytime soon. Some of us seem to spend years mulling over that next great idea instead of first deciding on a specific amount of time to build it.