"Moment of clarity" is a great cue. To me, Hoodie is enormously empowering (which is why I'm part of the Hoodie team). As a self-taught, non comp-sci frontend d

"Moment of clarity" is a great cue. To me, Hoodie is enormously empowering (which is why I'm part of the Hoodie team). As a self-taught, non comp-sci frontend dev with a humanities degree I can get all the backend/DB stuff sorted, definitely, but I'd actually rather not. It's difficult and occasionally arcane. I don't enjoy it. And, let's face it, I can make terrible mistakes. With Hoodie, I can quickly build apps by myself, on a solid, proven base, with super-fast setup, easy deployment, offline capability and syncing. And these last two don't even need to be actively invoked, they're just there and they just work. That's practically magical from where I stand. Hoodie allows me to build things in days that would usually take me weeks and in some cases require additional people. This gives me more time to experiment, refine, user test etc. It also lets me delegate with ease: I don't want or need full control and responsibility over the server and the db and many security aspects, not for what I do. I'll happily pay nodejitsu and iriscouch for that, because they know more about this stuff than I could ever learn in the time it takes me to make the money to pay them. That was my moment of clarity: Hoodie lets me get on with what I want to do and what I'm good at, and it's really got my back on many of the things I have neither the skill nor the patience nor the money for.