# Getting back into it

It's been a month and a half since my last blog post. Personal illness got in the way of things for most of October and I have been slowly getting back into it over the past week. My pre-order deadline for [Helthe](https://helthe.co) has come and gone and I have gone back to working on the project daily. Now, I am building back my blogging habit.

## Welcome to the hustle

Just before getting sick, I joined a community of bootstrappers called [JFDI](http://jfdi.bz) which is pretty great for people working alone in their basement like myself. We're running an experiment this week called [Week of Hustle](http://jfdi.bz/email/hustle-not-members.html) where a group of us will try to build a small product in a week. You can also use this to finish a project that you have been stagnating on. That's what I'll be doing. I had to answer some preliminary questions yesterday which I want to share. - **What is your personal goal?** Get [Helthe](https://helthe.co) into user testable stages and accepting early adopters.
- **Who is your audience?** PHP Developers (like myself) who care about application errors and their impact on clients.
- **What pain are you trying to solve?** In PHP, it's really hard to find errors when things are not working. Often, you just get a white screen. If I can save developers 1 hour of debugging a month, the product pays itself.

While things have been very good this past week, being sick and not working for a month is a pretty daunting hurdle to get over. This will get me back into the flow of things even more and help me get me over my #1 enemy. ## Code is my enemy

> The weakness is your love of creation. You love to write clean, tested, scalable, extensible, beautiful code. - [Jason Cohen](http://blog.asmartbear.com/the-code-is-your-enemy.html)

I love coding. I think myself a [craftsman](http://carlalexander.ca/startup/cooking-up-a-product-the-ingredients-of-success/ "Cooking up a product: The ingredients of success") more than anything else and I want to be proud of what I built. This is great, but it also causes some serious problem. I am not shipping in a timely manner. This is exacerbated by working alone and setting your own rules and timelines. So because I have a limited timeframe, I will be forced to limit my scope heavily. I will have daily goals to meet and be accountable for to help me focus and not get sidetracked. This isn't a new weakness or something I have just come aware of. I would say I have struggled with it since I started a year and a half ago, but it's one I keep working on (like my blogging habit). ## Speaking of blogging habit

I'll be blogging everyday during this. Shorter posts (like this one) and maybe multiple times a day about various Helthe topics (roadmap, ideal customer, design, etc) relevant to the work I am doing this week. So stay tuned! Want to follow my progress? I'll be sending daily updates of what is going on with the project to my mailing list. [You can subscribe here](http://eepurl.com/BOgBz) !