Russell:
There’s definitely more side projects incomplete out there than ones that have actually been finished, right? There has to be.
Christy:
Yeah. It’s like unclaimed lottery tickets.
Russell:
It is, exactly. Oh shit, that’s a great metaphor. Restart the podcast. We’ll call it “Unclaimed Lottery Tickets.”
Christy:
“Unclaimed Lottery Tickets.”
Russell:
Oh my god. That’s what our business idea is in.
Christy:
Pretty much.
Russell:
Yeah. I think part of the difficulty is … I reckon there’s some kind of deferred responsibility. When you have 2 people on an idea, you have all the enthusiasm in the beginning. As soon as you start working on the idea, because there’s someone else there, I feel like you can kind of be like, “Well I can, I can slack a little bit because there’s someone else involved.” I feel like 2 people thinking that leads to a project that’s stuck.
Christy:
Yeah, I definitely get that. The fact that people just move at different speeds, and especially at the time we weren’t working together, we were doing 2 completely different things. You were working in web at the time, so day-on-day you were thinking and all those kinds of things, whereas I was …
Russell:
That’s very true.
Christy:
… off in France working in a youth hostel …
Russell:
Galavanting, some would say.
Christy:
… galavanting, hardly ever on a computer, every now and then reading an email or something from you about the amazing progress you had made with the severe lack of progress I had made. All that I really did was continually switch technologies, which is probably another issue with personal projects is the fact that you don’t have to nail anything down. I was able to just be like, “This is cool …
Russell:
That’s absolutely true, yeah.
Christy:
” … Just going to jump on this.”
Russell:
Again, the work that we do now, we’re king of stringent with process, and we do that for very important reasons. It keeps things on track. Maybe there’s a sense of arrogance in that I’m doing it for myself, so I don’t need the process to keep my in check, but I feel, at least at this point, you probably do need that.
Christy:
Yeah, I think though, definitely. If you look at Team Drop, I actually did the initial bit-
Russell:
That was the name of the project?
Christy:
That was. I initially actually built that in Ruby on Rails.
Russell:
Mm. Forgot, yeah.
Christy:
I then built it in Django.
Russell:
Did you?