I have been working with a couple of friends on something like this for the last couple of weeks as a fun/side open source project.
It sucks when you see that there is no point on working on anything because it is or will already be made by someone else. I guess we will carry on just for the sake of doing it, learning and having fun.
Any advice on how to deal with this constant struggle with my motivation?
By the way, congrats to the guys, it is an awesome piece or work!
A pre-cursor was launched almost 8 months ago [1] but perhaps you missed it. I can imagine looking at such a refined design and feeling like you can't measure up. But if you are really passionate about whatever your are developing, you'll find a niche. Moreover there's always room for more than 1 player and competition is good to shape up the landscape for everybody. If you share your open source project, you might get a lot better feedback and perhaps more contributors.
Yes I missed it, thanks for the link. In any case we are very far from being able to compete ha! We all have our day jobs and it is hard to find time to build our thing. However, I hope one day we can post here a link to a working version no matter how simple it is ;)
Regarding the opensource aspect, we are already working on Github but it is too early and hacky to be shown to other people.
It sucks when you see that there is no point on working on anything because it is or will already be made by someone else. I guess we will carry on just for the sake of doing it, learning and having fun.
Any advice on how to deal with this constant struggle with my motivation?
By the way, congrats to the guys, it is an awesome piece or work!