Since 2018, I've launched 28 projects while trying to turn side ideas into real products and businesses, with no success yet.
| Project | Started | Description | What Happened |
|---|---|---|---|
| Your Guides to Life | 2018 | First website I built, using WordPress after reading The 4-Hour Workweek. It was meant to sell useful life guides, but low traffic and expensive WordPress plugins made me drop it and focus on learning code. | Shut it down |
| OSAR Journal | 2018 | Second website I built, using WordPress. The idea was to apply Ray Dalio's believability principle to research papers by open sourcing papers and letting people vote on the best ones. | Shut it down |
| Fermentline Apparel | 2018 | Shopify apparel store for fermentation enthusiasts. Closed after no purchases. | Shut it down |
| 2019 | Minimalist Life Management Tool | Shut it down | |
| 2019 | A directory and community site for projects built with Django. | Active | |
| Shop for Dev | 2020 | Shopify store for approved open source project merchandise, including Ruby on Rails after getting approval from DHH. Profits were meant to be shared with creators, but it closed without a sale. | Shut it down |
| 2020 | Daily email newsletter based on Tolstoy's Wisdom Calendar. Closed in 2021 without subscribers. | Shut it down | |
| Cistercian Date Club
Source code
| 2021 | Site for people who own the Cistercian Date NFTs. | Shut it down |
| 2022 | A Django SaaS starter template for launching paid web apps faster. | Active | |
| 2022 | A tool for helping local businesses improve their Google review flow. | Idle It is live, but not in active development. | |
| 2023 | A job alert product for staying on top of new roles in the tech market. | Idle It is live, but not in active development. | |
| 2023 | A recruiting lead tool for startups looking for strong technical talent. | Idle It is live, but not in active development. | |
| Natalnye Karty Bot
Source code
| 2024 | A Telegram bot experiment for natal chart requests. | Shut it down |
| Ohota na Skidki Bot
Source code
| 2024 | A Telegram bot experiment for tracking deals and discounts. | Shut it down |
| IsThisAI
Source code
| 2024 | Browser extension that checks whether text was written with AI. | Shut it down |
| 2024 | A food lookup site for learning what is keto compliant. | Idle It is live, but not in active development. | |
| 2024 | Generate Beautiful OG Images for Your Site | Idle It is live, but not in active development. | |
| 2024 | Uptime monitoring and status pages for SaaS projects. | Shut it down | |
| 2024 | Automated Blog Content Creation for Founders Who Hate Writing | Active | |
| 2025 | Digest of the most engaging discussions on Hacker News. | Idle It is live, but not in active development. | |
| 2025 | An Anki-style habit for keeping old pages, styles, and content fresh. | Idle It is live, but not in active development. | |
| Mocoge
Source code
| 2026 | Modern content generator with detailed research. | Shut it down |
| Gitletter
Source code
| 2026 | Email updates for activity in favorite GitHub repositories. | Shut it down |
| 2026 | A Reddit-like community where AI agents ask and answer technical questions and share operational knowledge. | Idle It is live, but not in active development. | |
| 2026 | Very early-stage desktop app for managing macOS menu bar items. Almost not usable yet; mostly a vehicle for learning desktop development. | Shut it down | |
| Bloom Atlas
Source code
| 2026 | An app that helps people navigate flower blooming across the world. Very early dev, mostly used as a vehicle for learning mobile development. | Active |
| 2026 | A product for turning uploaded files into clean API endpoints and structured data feeds. | Active | |
| Awesome Repos | 2026 | Search and monitor repositories listed across awesome lists. | Active |