Ask HN: Show your failed projects and share a lesson you learned

1

Sandpiper

* [Sandpiper](https://sandpiperhq.com) -- inventory tracking for people who hate inventory tracking.

#Sales #Spreadsheets #Web App 1 social mentions

2

saascast

I'm sure you'll get a fair number of interesting stories here, but you'll find a _ton_ at [IndieHackers](https://indiehackers.com) which is a sort of spin-off community from HN that's focuses more on bootstrappers and solo founders. For me, I launched a five projects in 2021 that were a mix of total flops and mostly-flops, and they all flopped for the same reason: <pre><code> * [Saascast.io](https://saascast.io/) -- revenue forecasting for Stripe-based SAAS businesses.

#Analytics #SaaS #CRM 2 social mentions

3

Indie Hackers

I'm sure you'll get a fair number of interesting stories here, but you'll find a _ton_ at [IndieHackers](https://indiehackers.com) which is a sort of spin-off community from HN that's focuses more on bootstrappers and solo founders. For me, I launched a five projects in 2021 that were a mix of total flops and mostly-flops, and they all flopped for the same reason: <pre><code> * [Saascast.io](https://saascast.io/) -- revenue forecasting for Stripe-based SAAS businesses.

#Startup Community #Startups #Social Networks 75 social mentions

I launched ByteVitae (https://bytevitae.com/) a couple of years ago, got a decent launch here and in Product Hunt, a bunch of users the first days ~3500 and a steady influx of users over the following months. I didn't know how to convert most of those users to clients, didn't talk to them, lost all interest after the initial launch and moved on after an amazing -26€ in benefits :P I learned so many things and was such a fruitful ride that for me it is far from a failure. But on the business side, definetly a complete failure! Even wrote a little post mortem at the time: https://vilva.io/blog/1-year-of-building-reflections. Lesson learned: Talk to your users. Don't neglect the business/marketing side, specially if you are a techie who loves to code. Talk to your users. It is a marathon run, forget about the overnight millionare launchs, the launch is the "easy" part, growing steady from there is the real challenge. Talk to your users!!

#Resume Builder #HR #Hiring And Recruitment 1 social mentions

5

getworkrecognized

- https://getworkrecognized.com - Could never reach market-fit with that. Wanted to really focus on the employee sides with brag documents but no employee will ever pay by themselves for such a tool.

#Tech #Web App #Project Management 1 social mentions

6

caseconverter.pro

I had/have some projects: <pre><code> - https://caseconverter.pro/app - was more experimentation than anything else, paste a JSON and get converted keys.

#Productivity #Developer Tools #Text Editors 1 social mentions

7

40 Hadiths

Https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wolfchat.wolfchat_app&hl=en_GB&gl=US It’s written in Elixir on the backend and Flutter on the front end, if anyone thinks they can do better, and wants to copy the code or take it over, please let me know.

#Mobile Apps #Religion #Web Search 1161 social mentions

8

Quail

Two of these (plus another, Price Parrot, that I forgot to include: https://sandpiperhq.com/pricing !), are spin-outs of a side-project (https://quailhq.com) that I started in 2014and that I've been working on for 7 years -- and that became my full-time job in 2021. That one definitely isn't a failure! The five (six including Price Parrot) are just the failures from this year. I try to live by "fail fast"!

#Startups #Startup Community #Insurance Administration And Management 4 social mentions