The First Cut Is Always Rough
· by Kjell
Today I cut the first build of Zenteek Player and pushed it out into the world. It feels strange - you work on something for months in the quiet of your own room, and then suddenly there's a build number attached to it and someone else can run it on their machine.
The bones are there: CoreAudio playback, a library indexer that actually scales, FLAC and DSD support, and a UI that I'm genuinely proud of. It's not a minimum viable anything - it's the player I want to use every evening with my headphones on.
I know there are rough edges. I can feel them. But shipping means putting a line in the sand and saying: from here, every change is a change I can measure. That's worth more to me than another week of polishing behind closed doors.
There's something humbling about watching your own music run through software you wrote. Every track is both a test case and a reward. :)