> What's the happy medium? Possibly, not building your own, but investing some time researching how others have built already existing tech? That helps if wha

> What's the happy medium? Possibly, not building your own, but investing some time researching how others have built already existing tech? That helps if what's out there doesn't work for you - either if it breaks (and you have to fix someone else's stuff that you use) or lacks feature-wise (and you _have_ to build your own, either by extending or re-designing).