How to start a project and not get stuck in a routine?

Question

Project management

The first step is the hardest. It is already easier to continue what has been started, because the first experience suggests further steps. But how to start? Sometimes an idea for a service or tool comes to mind and, after sketching on a napkin or whiteboard, I want to implement the idea in code. But then thousands of routine things pop up: set up a workspace, design a database schema, tighten authorization and authentication, and so on. All these little things take all the initial fuse and you can simply fall short of the coding of the most interesting. How do you deal with it?

Answer 1

A good incentive to work is when you come to the refrigerator, and it's empty.
Routine is usually 90% of the work.
We must learn to live with it.
You can become a senior when you can decide what you will do and take on only the most "delicious" tasks. But in this case, the routine will remain, perhaps it will be less.

Answer 2

This is the effect of the desire for immediate gratification. Inherent in spoiled children. You need to realize and get used to the fact that life in general is relatively rarely "fun and interesting", but usually consists of a routine. Those who cannot realize this end up either homeless or drug addicts.

Answer 3

KISS
MVP
TDD

Answer 4

Take a ready-made template project (framework) where everything is already there - authorization, database, server, and so on.
If there is no suitable one, then spend a couple of days and do it once.
But to be honest, it looks like you just want to fantasize about how you implement a cool idea of ​​​​how to work, you are already doing it, you don’t need to change anything, you already get your dose of dopamine in the best way.
Keep painting on napkins and have fun :)

Answer 5

If such trifles stop you, then you should not start any projects. In any project there is a routine and you need to do it or find someone who will do it for you.

Answer 6

Don't design in the beginning! Immediately drank the functional, the most basic and complex. This will make it clear whether you can cope with your plan at all, check the idea for viability and feasibility, test the loads, which will immediately give an idea of ​​the necessary hardware.
And if everything is OK, you will get great satisfaction and new strength to wrap it all up in a normal architecture and present it to everyone.

Answer 7

Everything depends on the situation. If you have procrastination it is one thing, but if you have analysis paralysis it is another.