But doing that 8x work is a difference between an obscure Github repo and next fad in the JS world.
(You could probably skip making good documentation, everybody does that and it doesn't seem to stop popularity.)
I'd also question making good documentation is 3x the effort - not if your product is really doing anything interesting. For interesting stuff, most work is in the internals and not at the edges that will be documented.
(You could probably skip making good documentation, everybody does that and it doesn't seem to stop popularity.)
I'd also question making good documentation is 3x the effort - not if your product is really doing anything interesting. For interesting stuff, most work is in the internals and not at the edges that will be documented.