GhostHub hit 10K lines – now I'm burning out. What would you do?

4 BleedingXiko 2 4/30/2025, 4:59:41 PM
I’ve been developing GhostHub, a swipe-based media server for personal libraries. It doesn’t need accounts or setup; just run it and share instantly. It has real-time viewing sync, anonymous chat, and automatic indexing with thumbnail previews.

After recently releasing version 1.2, I planned to dive straight into more ambitious features like transcoding and a config server. But managing bandwidth optimization, Docker builds, UI/UX improvements, and backend refinements has started to become overwhelming for a solo developer.

GhostHub is already at 10K+ lines of Python and JavaScript, excluding the front-end HTML and CSS, and it’s beginning to outgrow me. Every new feature demands a ton of testing, and I’m feeling the classic burnout creeping in.

I’m curious how other solo or small-team devs manage this:

- How do you balance delivering new features with preventing burnout?

- When do you decide to ship versus taking time to polish your code?

- Do you continuously refactor, or save cleanup for later?

Would appreciate hearing any experiences or advice from others who’ve tackled similar challenges.

Github (For Context): https://github.com/BleedingXiko/GhostHub

Comments (2)

turtleyacht · 3h ago
Adding GitHub Actions workflows may help offload some of the toil. It should be pleasant to make small (or large) changes, not stressful.
BleedingXiko · 2h ago
That’s actually a great idea, thanks! never really used github outside of very basic version control.