By Isaac Boamah Anim
Main Feature: An open source community blog platform
Why it failed: Too much building, no plan, no direction, no audience, no validation
Lesson: Start small and ship fast to validate the idea
What it was supposed to be: Blog Project (yes, that is literally what I called it) is a blogging platform for developers and makers to share posts, kind of like dev.to, but more community-driven. I wanted to build a place for people to write, connect, and maybe even form micro-communities around shared interests. What actually happened: I spent months building it. And by “building,” I mean coding. Not launching. Not marketing. Not talking to potential users. Just endless coding. I kept adding features no one asked for. Tags, bookmarks, dark mode, nested comments, SEO stuff, even a draft autosave feature. But I never shipped anything. The project lived entirely in GitHub and in my head. Eventually, I burned out. I didn’t have a clear goal, no user feedback, and no idea how to actually get this thing out into the world. So… I quietly stopped working on it. Why it failed: Too much building, not enough validating. No plan, no direction, no audience What I learned: Start small. MVP's are minimum for a reason. Talk to users before building Shipping something rough and functional is better than perfect code no one knows about. It is oddly satisfying to add this as the first fail on IndieFails. This project didn’t go anywhere, but I learned a ton and hopefully someone else will too.