>To given an example it can easily take me a whole day to set up something as simple as an authentication system for a web application If you are writing your

>To given an example it can easily take me a whole day to set up something as simple as an authentication system for a web application If you are writing your own, it should take more than a day. You can't just slap it together and expect it to be right. That's why there are companies like Stormpath. What you probably need to do is work on building some reusable library of personal code so that you can get shit running faster. Base it off one of the major frameworks and just make some boilerplate projects that you can check out and get up and running fast. Try to reuse code. You don't have to write reusable modules to reuse your code. Just have a skeleton project that makes things faster.