Five Projects, Carefully Unhinged and Fully Deployed

Source: Dev.to

Overview

I recently reviewed my Vercel dashboard and came to an unexpected conclusion: I appear to be speedrunning side projects as if it were a professional obligation.

Projects

Digital Guilt Trap

A minimalist experiment in user interaction that applies light emotional pressure via buttons.

The Checker

Attempts to analyze personality traits and then politely passes judgment.

Quantum Weather

Provides technically accurate forecasts that are emotionally questionable.

A Deliberately Useless Website

Does almost nothing, yet still required mobile bug fixes.

Portfolio

Now tasked with explaining how all of the above are connected.

Lessons Learned

• None of these projects were built to chase virality; they were built to ship, deploy, and expose the realities of production environments rather than hypothetical perfection.
• User experience is deceptive.
• Mobile layouts are unforgiving.
• Committing code is more productive than overthinking it.

Takeaway

If you are waiting for the perfect idea, consider not doing that. Build the imperfect one instead, deploy it, improve it, and move forward. Momentum remains undefeated.

Discussion

If you had one hour to improve any of these projects, where would you spend it?