Ask HN: What are your unfinished projects?

3 points by adam_gyroscope 25 days ago | 10 comments

For me, it a chess clock. I’ve got all the parts (esp32, oled screens, usb c charging electronics), the software is written, the case is 3d printed. All of this piled in a box on my desk mocking me. What about you?

murzynalbinos 25 days ago |

Not a single project, but a graveyard of expired domains. I constantly hunt for good dropped domains to build niche sites and blogs on them. I end up buying them, feeling a rush of productivity, and then leaving them parked while I go back to maintaining my existing apps.

adam_gyroscope 25 days ago | |

Oh man I can relate. I think own 100 domains or so and can’t let myself let any expire.

vunderba 24 days ago | | |

Used to do this too, but the beginning of the calendar year was always like a sucker punch to the wallet.

Nowadays I just put all my projects, apps, and games on subdomains under a single main domain.

iyamani 24 days ago | | |

Out of curiosity, how much does it cost you annually to renew all of your domains?

bhu1st 25 days ago | | |

I own about 20 and 10 of them are live with projects that I built.

krapp 24 days ago |

All of them. Drives of them. I'm too stupid and obstinate to quit. Sites from when I wanted to do web dev, a Hacker News clone written in Hack. Games games games, most of which are prototypes. A personal website and blog that's still only half done. Scripts and tools for the blog that are never done. Started teaching myself tkinter so I can make a UI for posting in my blog, so I can make a blog post about that, probably never get done. Short stories and cringe poetry yellowing in binders. I'm the walking embodiment of the sunk cost fallacy.

adam_gyroscope 24 days ago | |

Man games are my project kryptonite. So many repositories, so few fun games. Or complete games.

didgetmaster 24 days ago |

A distributed, object-based, general-purpose data management system. I was insane enough to try and tackle a project that needs at least a couple dozen programmers to implement all the planned features.

It does some amazing things, but is far from finished.

4d4m 23 days ago |

Hundreds of songs, approaching 1k