Ask HN: I've decided to shut down my side project! What now? Ledger [1] is a tool that reminds you via slack to terminate your EC2 instances (works with GCP as well). I've built this last year. It didn't get any traction and I've recently decided to shut it down. I wrote a twitter thread [2] about it explaining why and listed some of the mistakes I made. And boy there were plenty (some of them I didn't even mention...like how the name is totally wrong XD). I got a suggestion in the twitter thread that I should post it here and see if I can get any more feedback. Might as well get some more knowledge out of this failure, right? It was also suggested by a couple of folks that I list the project on sites like microaquire and indiemaker but I don't know how realistic this is?! I mean why would anyone want to to buy a SaaS with zero users?! [1]: https://ledger.initeq.net/ [2]: https://twitter.com/denibertovic/status/1466408868276314114 |