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Re:It's OK to abandon your side-project by jimbokun on Sunday February 25, 2024 @11:26PM (#39507665)
Great story of a successful failure.

The app was a failure, because he learned everything he needed to know by writing the app.

There are a lot of software projects that fail in the sense of not being released or used, but valuable from what was learned in the process of developing it.

Re:It's OK to abandon your side-project by timwheeler on Sunday February 25, 2024 @11:44PM (#39507767)
Agreed, just went through this after spending a year and a half adding a bunch of cool real-time features to an app of mine that no one asked for. Still a win because now I’ve “done it before” :)