It may be a little too late in the game now that everyone is sick of Facebook apps but I’ve been wanting to build one for quite some time. Many of the applications on Facebook are pure crap. They’re a sorry excuse for serving ads and collecting marketing information and it’s unfortunate for people like me who want to put out something with a little more quality. Thankfully Facebook seems to have heard the cries from users and is really cracking down on privacy and how many invitations applications can send.

There is another problem I must overcome though: Needing the answers to all of the unknowns. Needing all my questions answered before I start. The funny thing is, that everything I’m not sure about at this time is something that won’t even be an issue until later on. I can’t plan for every situation that will come up. I can’t make an app and have it run perfectly the first time. I’m going to make mistakes. There, I said it.

That is probably my biggest fear. It’s the huge factor in deciding whether I finish a project, or if it gets added to my never-ending list of ideas that I’ve had and dropped. So today I’m making a decision to just start. No more reading countless tutorials and blogs to make sure I am doing things the best way possible; I can always refactor later. No more buying every book I can find on a topic so that I can know every possible angle on the subject. While these things are fairly healthy to an extent, they’ve always given me enough time to talk myself out of a project.

Hopefully this more agile approach will at least get me to the point of being able to know if something will work or not. We’ll see.

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