RYO is the best way to learn, if you have the time to learn. After building one own solution one is able to assess the strengths and weaknesses of what other more experienced people built. Without the learning phase those other solutions are incomprehensible black boxes. The trick is not to skip the phase in which one researches available solutions.

Strong StackOverflow "don't do anything new, god forbid you may actually learn something" vibes

On "Hacker" News of all places :)