Question Developers: What do you do to get inspired?

[ar81]

I am passing through a stage of low inspiration.
I sit in front of the computer and even if I know that unfinished ideas are there, I does not feel the need of finishing it.

It is almost as if I had lost interest, but I know it is most a matter of inspiration, not just lack of ideas.

I ned tips to get inspired to do some coding.

 

[Andy44]

I generally don't try to get inspired for add-ons, I wait until I see a need for an add-on and then I do it. My add-ons were made because I had a concept in mind of a lunar transfer network, and the only way I was going to see what I wanted in Orbiter was to do it myself.

So, since I have that framework to work within, if I decide I want to do another add-on I just think about my little "universe" and what I haven't built for it yet. I have a list in my head as long as my arm of stuff I might want to do someday.

 

[n72.75]

Try drawing, it usually helps.

 

[Bj]

Getting inspired? Hard to say, I think the best way to get motivated for freely developing software is to listen/read the constant comments that you might have. I think the thought of everyone drooling over the Arrow got Dan motivated. :tiphat:

Deep down though its a matter if you want to rather than need to. Personally I am working 46 hours a week + full time student + whatever random jobs on the side which could account as high as 20 hours a week. Quite simply, all I want to do is sleep, so that's all I do.

Best advice; do it when you want to do it, don't force yourself to do anything you don't want to do. Otherwise you will just end up hating it.