I have dozens of half-built things. A focus app. A writing assistant that learns your voice. An NFT-whale notifier. A GPU brute-forcer I wrote purely because it was fun. Most never launched.
For years I treated that as a problem, evidence of not finishing. I’ve stopped.
The shelved projects are where the taste comes from. Each one is a small, cheap experiment that taught me something a finished product would have hidden: what people actually want, what I’ll maintain, where the interesting problem lives.
What the graveyard is for
- Calibration. You learn faster killing ten things than nursing one.
- Range. Six languages, a dozen domains. You don’t get that shipping the safe idea repeatedly.
- Honesty. A portfolio of only the wins is a lie by omission.
So I’m putting the graveyard on the front page. Shipped, shelved, still learning: it all gets logged. The point was never to launch everything. The point was to keep exploring, and to remember what each dead end taught me.
