GraceSoft Core, Day 1: I Got Tired of Rebuilding the Same Thing
I didn’t start out trying to build a framework. I was just trying to fix my app.
While working on my second project, I kept running into the same issues:
- Rewriting setup logic
- Rebuilding authentication
- Reconfiguring environments
- Reconnecting integrations
Then I went back to my first project to fix bugs and improve it so I could actually use it. That’s when it hit me:
Why do these two projects feel almost identical under the hood?
The two projects serve different purposes, yet I was rebuilding the same things in both: auth, webhooks, config systems, UI foundations and database patterns. Again and again.
The breaking point
At some point, it stopped feeling like progress. It felt like:
“Why am I solving the same problem twice?”
The shift
Instead of asking “What does this project need?”, I started asking:
“What do all my projects need?”
What comes next
That question led me to something bigger: a shared foundation. A reusable system. A core.
I’m calling it GraceSoft Core.
No code yet, just thinking. But this might be the most important part.
Part of the GraceSoft Core build-in-public series. Originally published on DEV.