问HN：你最近为自己开发了多少软件？
随着软件开发成本的不断降低，你发现自己做得更多的是使用他人的软件，还是自己动手构建软件呢？<p>我在思考这个问题……我为我们家建立了一个财务系统（最初只是一个简单的预算工具，但现在可以跟踪所有开支），开发了一款Mac应用程序用于创建和编辑视频，制作了不少个人使用的开发工具，还有一些为我的孩子们设计的应用程序和游戏等等。<p>这些软件在市场上已经有很多商业产品可供选择，还有一些开源替代品，但我自己动手构建的个性化程度超越了任何论点（在我看来）！<p>很想知道其他人是怎么做的。 :)<p>附言：我已经写软件8年了，其中5年是以专业身份从事的。
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With the cost of building software continuing to drop, what have you found yourself doing more: using other people's software, or building it yourself?<p>I was thinking about this... I've built our family's financial system (it started as a simple budgeting tool, but now it tracks everything), a Mac app to create and edit videos, quite a few developer tools for personal use, a bunch of apps for my kids, some games, and so forth.<p>All of these already have plenty of commercial offerings in the market, and some have open-source alternatives, but the level of personalization I get by building them myself beats any argument (IMHO)!<p>Interested to see what others are doing. :)<p>PS: I've been writing software for 8 years (5 of them professionally).