A hall for unfinished work
Not every idea deserves another weekend.
Idea Morgue is a public autopsy room for side projects that died. Write what you built, name the cause, keep the lesson, and let strangers vote to bring it back.
Recently mourned
All filesExcuse Engine
Generate a Slack-ready reason the feature slipped.
The jokes were good. Engineering managers forwarded them to the team. Then a VP asked if we were building a culture of accountability or a comedy product. We were building a comedy product. Soft-killed in Q2.
Rewrite Zero
Migrate the app off the framework that got you here.
The product had users. I decided users deserved a cleaner architecture. Six weeks later the architecture was cleaner and the users were gone. I still think about the folder structure.
Second Brain OS
Notion, but it would finally make you think.
Started as a notes app. Became a graph. Became a daily journal. Became an AI tutor. Became a life operating system with 47 empty screens. I never wrote a second note in it because opening it felt like work.
Hallway Cap Table
Track the 100 companies that refuse to IPO.
News scraping worked until every source started rate-limiting weekend builders. I did not want to become a data vendor. The homepage still looks expensive.