The Graveyard of Dead Projects

A native Windows app that allows users to set a series of wallpapers with a timeframe for each. The app would automatically change wallpapers throughout the day based on the specified schedule.

I liked the idea of using Tauri, as it would allow me to manage wallpaper changes using Rust. However, the main issue was that the Windows API for changing wallpapers was quite limited. It didn’t support specifying settings for multiple monitors or choosing between fill and fit options.

I'd like to give it another go and see if the issues are as bad as I remember.

At the time, I was creating a lot of projects and manually uploading them to my Linode instance. I wanted to streamline this process by developing an app that would automate the necessary commands, manage environment variables, and essentially deploy projects for me.

I liked the idea, but as I worked on it, I realized that the effort required would exceed the benefits of automating the deploy process. The amount of work involved was not justified by the value it would provide.

No, considering that I no longer deploy to Linode and have moved to more streamlined options like Vercel, AWS, or Docker, I see no purpose in revisiting this project.

I wanted to create a page where users could post messages to the void, visible only to others who had the app open at the same time. I envisioned it as something similar to The Unsent Project.

I prototyped it in about a day but felt it wasn’t enough, so I decided to scrap it.

I'd like to revisit it and keep it as a novelty. When I get around to learning Elixir more in-depth, I’d like to pursue it. For now, I plan to start by learning Elixir before diving into Phoenix Live View and AI assistance.

A companion app for books similar to what Genius is for lyrics. It wouldn't be line by line but rather feature user-created summaries and charts for given books or chapters to help others remember what happened or serve as a companion while reading. I liked the idea of using something like TL Draw that would allow users to easily create charts for the current situation in a given part of a book.

TL Draw's versioning isn’t very developer-friendly as it isn’t based on SemVer I got the basics of the app working on one PC, but when I cloned the repo on another, breaking changes appeared after runningMaybe I got unlucky with the releases and the timing of the project, but working around the constant changes and lack of support since the latest release was so new made me unmotivated to keep working on it.

I understand the need to adapt processes and tools to project needs, but considering that the npm ecosystem is based on SemVer I don’t think changing something like this makes much sense.

I still like the idea. I might come back to this if I find myself in an idea drought and if the TL Draw API stabilizes a bit so it's more manageable.

A customizable game of Consequences playable across different computers, similar to Gartic Phone. At the end, an AI would generate images based on what was written.

I had already created all the logic, and it was working okay. It just needed some extra design and game configuration options. However, I realized that free AI image generation wasn't quite there yet. This meant that each game would have a considerable cost and wouldn't look amazing.

I might come back to it stripping out the part of AI image generation and create a polished version of Consequences online since I found that there isn't really an existing alternative as of now.

The idea was to create a revamped UI version of Goodreads, keeping the functionality of rating books, writing reviews, sorting them into lists, and having a feed of what other users rate or add to their lists.

The project was initially planned with a couple of friends to add a bigger project to all of our portfolios, but motivation faded from all parties. This led to the project being slowly dropped over the course of a few weeks.

I'd say there's no chance. I like the idea, but if I were to do an app of this style, I'd rather it be about something other than books. I don't enjoy simply recreating existing apps. Additionally, both of my friends who wanted to work on this no longer wish to continue, and I have no particular need to add a project like this to my portfolio.

A web app that allows users to visualize their goals as a graph with a linear ordering of tasks, them being able to see what they currently can do, and what the steps are to get to the next step. The idea also included them settings the end goal and using an LLM or similar to generate the steps to get to the end goal.

I actually completed this project, I just will never release it. I think the idea is okay, but at the end of the day it's a glorified todo list, which I feels is not good enough to release so I'm just going to let it rot.

Unless I can figure out how to make it more interesting then I'm not going to.