Joshua Thijssen • 12/27/2021

A comprehensive list of failed projects

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A software developer and freelance consultant shares a personal retrospective on numerous side projects attempted between 1998 and 2021 that ultimately failed to generate sustainable income. The article lists and briefly describes technical endeavors like creating an operating system (CybOS), a programming language (Saffire), an e-commerce SaaS, a security scanner, and various web tools, analyzing the common pitfalls and lessons learned from pursuing passion projects in tech.

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