Lone wolf programming involves many challenges as an individual must handle all aspects of development, marketing, sales, support, and more alone. Key issues include a lack of deadlines, no code reviews, difficulty testing for all bugs, needing to be skilled in multiple areas like coding, graphics, and audio, loneliness from working alone all the time, and the benefits of finding a partner or hiring help to expand beyond being a "cowboy coder" working alone in a "cellar."

1. Lone wolf
Why lone wolf programming sucks?
The only good thing you do not have deadlines!

2. You are a cowboy.
● There is no-one to look how you write your
code so you must be cowboy coding even if
you think you are using scrum or waterfall.

3. Marketing
● If you really are alone you have to do
marketing of your projects alone.
● Marketing will divert you from
programming.
● You will need sales to eat.

4. Bugs, bugs and bugs?
● You have to test your software really well,
because if you don't and you start to get bug
reports you will be fixing bugs not adding
features.
● There is no-one to review your code before
pushing to production, so bugs will get into
production even if you don't think so.

5. Content
● Code is not enough to create a good product.
● You have to be good artists in three different
fields, code, graphics and audio.

6. Loneliness
● You really are alone, because you do not have
time to do anything else than write code,
create content and do marketing. Lets not
think about how much time customer
support itself will take time from you.

7. Out of cellar
● Find a co-partner.
● Hire artists and hackers if you have the cash.
● Rent an office.
● Outsource marketing.

8. I am a lone wolf!
● You can find me bitching about technology at
#heapify @ oftc.net under the nickname
TMKCodes.
● Want to visit my crappy website http:
//aleprok.eu ?
● You can email me at toni@aleprok.eu if you
have something longer to discuss.
● I am Toni Korpela your lonely programmer,
who dreams of being god!