While I was cruising The Morning Brew this morning, I came across Rick Strahl’s implementation of CodePaste.net. Which by coincidence was exactly the kind of thing I was gong to create with KodeBits.com.
Now I’m not bitter, but it does suck to find out not only that an idea you’ve come up with has already been done, but to find out that it’s been done well. I mean, CodePaste.net is hot. So now the dilemma, do I come up with a new idea for the KodeBits.com domain? Do I continue on and just release it as open source, making it a learning exercise? Or just throw the project away and come up with something new? Who knows!
I mean, really, in today’s day and age, ideas that haven’t been done are hard to come by. Even ideas that have been done poorly in the past, are tough to find. I suppose it’s something I’ll need to sit and ponder for a bit. We’ll see. But for now, I think I’m going to shelve the project and look for alternatives.