I agree. We already have projects like http://test-load-balancer.github.io but I have a feeling I will see five more posts on he in the next year about re-inventing this wheel and yet not see a single contribution to existing solutions like tlb.

It must be a little depressing to build a really useful product you know many people need, give it away only hoping people will use it and be happy, then find out everyone would rather build their own.

But we do like to build things, it is in our nature. Plus, what looks better on your resume: 1) I migrated my teams test suite to using test load balancer in two days, saving hours every test run. 2) I contributed improvements to the open source test load balancer project. 3) I designed and implemented my own distributed test load balancing tool!