Scratching someone else's itch
Steven Pemberton · interactions · 2004
Every good work of software starts by scratching a developer's personal itch. ---Eric Raymond, The Cathedral and the Bazaar There's a closely related issue, however that I don't know how to solve yet without a big player with a lot of money, which is doing systematic user interface end user testing. We're not very good at that yet, we need to find a way to be good at it. ---Eric Raymond, Why Open Source will Rule