Lessons Learned While Building Hanami

Building an Open Source project is great… except when it isn't. It's rewarding and frustrating, challenging and boring.

It's an emotional rollercoaster, where you have to deal with people and expectations, innovation, copyrights, companies, communication and communities, fear, anger, mistakes, features and bugs, a day job, get almost broke, time management, and finally… writing the code.

This is the story of Hanami in the last four years: from a hack experiment to established software.