I’ve been working on collectyourcards.com for a while now. Initially, it made a ton of sense to have two separate interfaces for different users and admins.

Eventually, I recognized that in order for the database to keep up with the volume of data that was needed, I would going to have to make crowdsourcing possible.

Crowdsourcing makes every user an admin, in some aspects, except that I review all of their changes before they’re committed to the actual data.

So I started heading down a path to solve this problem. Merging features, writing new issues. Until I hated it. But at this point, I’d spent numerous hours changing dozens of files. I can’t Ctrl-Z my way out of this one.

Every day, I am more and more thankful for my years of experience in software development, and the lessons I’ve learned along the way.