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Congratulations ! It seems you built something people needed and loved :) .

Your story is an inspiration to people who think they're too "green" or "new" to contribute :)



Thank you for the kind words!

I absolutely agree, many junior developers are afraid to jump into open source – even though they totally don't have to be!

The pain points you have while developing, no matter at which level of experience, other people probably have them too. Some of them are already solved, but many of them aren't! If you solve one of them, it can only be good for you to generalize it a bit and push it on GitHub and npm.

Worst thing that can happen? Nobody uses your solution, oh well.

Best thing that can happen? It could change your live.

So why not do it?


"So why not do it?"

Because giving your work away too freely devalues your work and that of your peers.

That may be offset by the benefits depending on the circumstance.


> Your story is an inspiration to people who think they're too "green" or "new" to contribute :)

Not even to just new developers, even to us old developers. Max has been someone I look to as inspiration and I've been doing this for almost 20 years.

Keep up the good work, Max.




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