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Side Project Obituary

Developer ToolsProductivity

A service that connects to GitHub, analyzes abandoned repositories, and generates an interactive 'project obituary' with code stats, time invested, and inferred failure reasons from commit messages and dependencies. It then surfaces patterns across projects to help developers avoid the same traps.

Target Audience

Indie developers and makers who start 10+ side projects annually but ship less than 25%, feeling guilt and wanting to understand their own productivity pitfalls without manually journaling.

Why Now

Dev.to's 'I Built a Graveyard for My Dead Side Projects' resonated deeply, signaling an unaddressed pain; parallel Ask HN threads like 'Are most of us developers lying about how much work we do?' reveal a broader need for honest self-assessment around unfinished work.

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