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Kagtum Update
I’ve been itching to make some launch progress on kagtum, the site that does, well, everything I want it to.
I’ve done a 5-minute pitch at BarCamp Leeds, had expressions of interest in re-using the technology for other areas I hadn’t even thought of, and had some real serious architectural issues that is ultimately driven by resource, or rather lack of it.
And every week or so I look at a post-it note I wrote after a meeting with Guy Dickinson some months ago that told me to keep it simple, launch The Grid (which doesn’t have half the problems the news area does architecturally), and just get something out of the door.
I procrastinate, prioritise other things over the top of it, do anything I can to avoid taking that advice. I don’t want to do “something”, I want to do “the right thing”.
Sometimes I glance over at the architectural schemas for the processing engine – some of them sketched because the code isn’t finished, some of them generated – and realise I can make things better if only I had another few months. I bog myself down in routine work, now realising that people’s expectations have been raised and it could take some time to deliver something compatible.
As a result of all this I’ve decided I need to re-tool, commit some capital, bring some more people on-board behind the scenes and aim for the smallest/simplest possible thing that can work. I need to readjust expectations at this stage – I know what my roadmap is, but my first release won’t touch more than 20% of what I want it to.
If you’re reading this now, consider your expectations suitably adjusted.
When can you expect something? Soon. Just not as soon as any of us had hoped.
