> I hate seeing talented development hours going to waste that could have been used to make an already existing project better. They didn't go to waste. They m

> I hate seeing talented development hours going to waste that could have been used to make an already existing project better. They didn't go to waste. They made Deku and learned a lot along the way. Just because something exists, doesn't mean you can't build your own. And not everything has an immediate, positive outcome. I wrote my own MP3 Player back when Winamp really whipped the llama's ass. That got my name in a local newspaper in India, which ended up being the small boost I needed for the Consul General to grant me a Student Visa to come to the US. A few years later, a fan of my MP3 Player messaged me and we became good friends. I interviewed for a job in Florida and ended up staying at his place for the weekend. A few years later, while I continued to work at the job in Florida, my friend and I built a scheduling webapp that made it to the front page of Wired during SXSW. An incredibly long list of positive things that happened in my life, I can track back to spending a week or two writing that MP3 player in my youth. If you ask me, I'd do it all over again. So I'm glad they build Deku, regardless of how it compares to React.