Sertaç Fırat

Hi everyone, I'm Serta . As a civil engineer with years of hands-on expertise in project management, planning, and resource management, I am finally reaching the end of the development process for my own planning app. As a solo maker, while i prepare for this launch, I want to share how I transitioned from being the target audience of this product to its developer, along with my experiences, realizations, and the struggles I faced along the way. Honestly, it took 6 months, working 12 hours on average, gave my all.

Considering that the majority of people on this platform have a background in software engineering or come from the tech industry, I believe those who pivoted from other professions to software might understand me best. However, I think we've all felt, at some point in our lives, that we no longer enjoy being the "producers" of our work. I believe the root cause of this lies not in human nature, but in the dynamics of today's world. For our hunter-gatherer genes, finding a reason to feel "useful" has never been simultaneously this difficult and this easy in human history. I don't want to sound pessimistic, but in an era where we cumulatively question reality, achieving "meaningful" work has become costly both for ourselves and for others. This cost is paid through the unnecessary waste of our time and the anxiety of inadequacy poured over us by the constant rat race. At this point, the most critical concept becomes "efficiency." Whether it's just the nature of the job, because our boss demands it, or simply to feel useful... It doesn't matter. We all feel, at some point, that we are operating far below our efficiency threshold, just spinning our wheels.

Hi everyone, I'm Serta . As a civil engineer with years of hands-on expertise in project management, planning, and resource management, I am finally reaching the end of the development process for my own planning app. As a solo maker, while i prepare for this launch, I want to share how I transitioned from being the target audience of this product to its developer, along with my experiences, realizations, and the struggles I faced along the way.

Considering that the majority of people on this platform have a background in software engineering or come from the tech industry, I believe those who pivoted from other professions to software might understand me best. However, I think we've all felt, at some point in our lives, that we no longer enjoy being the "producers" of our work. I believe the root cause of this lies not in human nature, but in the dynamics of today's world. For our hunter-gatherer genes, finding a reason to feel "useful" has never been simultaneously this difficult and this easy in human history. I don't want to sound pessimistic, but in an era where we cumulatively question reality, achieving "meaningful" work has become costly both for ourselves and for others. This cost is paid through the unnecessary waste of our time and the anxiety of inadequacy poured over us by the constant rat race. At this point, the most critical concept becomes "efficiency." Whether it's just the nature of the job, because our boss demands it, or simply to feel useful... It doesn't matter. We all feel, at some point, that we are operating far below our efficiency threshold, just spinning our wheels.