To be fair, though, I learned a lot. Vocata has some powerful ideas there. It's just a pity that I couldn't get it to work past the "it runs and I can create an actor to be followed" stage. I wonder why @nik is not working on it any longer.
Two weeks in, and now I have a service that can accept follow requests and create questions activities. But that's it. I was hoping to get a PoC ready before the 1st of the month and to promote it before Hacker News "Who is hiring?" threads.
Two weeks where I could've launched the MVP and worry about the details later, but instead I went "Let's play with this new toy" mode.