Having a small project with a low to no amount of users certainly allows you to play with more novel ideas that might put off certain users (especially if the solution has stability issues at first).
I feel that his second point regarding creating limitations actually requires the creative freedom implied by the former. Once you have a user base you cannot simply arbitrarily add limitations.
It does feel refreshing sometimes to see certain software reflect the authors idiosyncratic way of working. Not every tool needs to scale to 1 million users. And i agree with the author that if you love working on your project you will probably produce something much better even if it uses unconventional designs.
I feel that his second point regarding creating limitations actually requires the creative freedom implied by the former. Once you have a user base you cannot simply arbitrarily add limitations.
It does feel refreshing sometimes to see certain software reflect the authors idiosyncratic way of working. Not every tool needs to scale to 1 million users. And i agree with the author that if you love working on your project you will probably produce something much better even if it uses unconventional designs.