Four years, about 60 paying users at the end, roughly enough to cover hosting and a takeaway. Not a failure. Not a business either. It sat in the middle where it was too alive to ignore and too small to matter, which I…
There is a project I have come back to roughly once a year for four years. Each time I spend two or three weeks updating dependencies, remembering the architecture, fixing whatever rotted, and getting it back to where…
Every time I think about it I feel tired rather than excited, which is new. The remaining work is not hard, it is just unglamorous: billing edge cases, password reset, an admin screen, the empty states, and the thing…
Side project, last commit in November. Went to run it this weekend and the install fails outright. The Node version the project expects is past its support window, two dependencies have deprecation warnings that are now…
Life happened, then the momentum went. Eleven weeks since I touched the code. It has been running fine the whole time, which is either reassuring or an indictment. Six people still pay, $78 a month total. Nobody has…
Opened a project I abandoned in December. Install fails, a native dependency will not compile, the lockfile references versions that have moved, the CI config points at a runner image that no longer exists, and the…
Left this alone in December. Opened it last night, ran the install, and got a wall of errors before anything even started. CI has been red since some point in the spring. There are eleven paying customers still on it,…
Small app, maybe 9k lines, worked fine the day I stopped. Today: install fails, the build tool has had two major versions since, and half the packages have advisories. The rewrite voice is very loud right now. Is it…