So… what’s next?

A comment by someone (hi lisa) on my last post, posed the question: “what happens to Lopico now?” That’s a good question. I have a new job, live in a new city, and don’t have much time available for it. I’m working on getting into a better routine for blogging / writing code, but I’m not there yet. My simple answer for Lopico is: it’s not dead, but it’s not at its peak either. I’m more or less putting development of Lopico on hold. It’s set up in such a way that my involvement can be fairly minuscule and it will run just fine, and at least cover costs. I can’t be completely dedicated, but when I have time I’ll work on new features / design. I’m not going to throw it away (I still have too much that I want to do) but I’m not as dedicated as I would ideally be.

This may work out for the best. If I make it more of a long term project, and worry less about getting new features rolled out every so often, then I will dedicate more time to getting the right mix of features… at least that’s one potential path. And if it takes me a couple years until I can back into it that’s fine. Letting it grow slowly and adding some years to the Lopico domain will give me a better place to resume when I do get a chance to put more effort into it. I can’t really say what the ultimate future is, but I will say that the whole experience has made me want to start more things… and if that’s the best thing to come out of Lopico I’ll consider it a success.