Side projects are fun.
Some are alive, some are useful, and some taught me one weird thing before disappearing
into the bin. Treat the active ones as always WIP, and the archived ones as receipts.
Project trash
The stuff that almost shipped.
Retired projects can still tell a useful story: what worked, what did not, and why I stopped pushing them.
Archived 2026
BuildFlipper
A SaaS app for managing PC building and flipping businesses. It solved a real problem, but never managed to gain users.
Solved a real workflow, but did not find enough demand to keep pushing it.
Unlaunched 2025
Bibliott.ca
A reading speed and book progress tracker that never got built out fully.
It was not clear what the standout feature would be compared with platforms like Goodreads.
Archived 2026
ekran
An app to track your TV shows and movies.
The gap I wanted to close in the market was solved by a different app
Archived 2026
@zerbusdev
An X/Twitter bot experiment. Full write-up pending.
Not happy with quality of content and lack of engagement