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.
- There’s Digital Guilt Trap, a minimalist experiment in user interaction that applies light emotional pressure via buttons.
- The Checker, which attempts to analyze personality traits and then politely passes judgment.
- Quantum Weather, where forecasts are technically accurate but emotionally questionable.
- A deliberately Useless Website that does almost nothing, yet still managed to require mobile bug fixes.
- And my Portfolio, now tasked with explaining how all of the above are connected.
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. Each one reinforced a familiar lesson: user experience is deceptive, mobile layouts are unforgiving, and committing code is more productive than overthinking it.
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.
Projects shipped. Lessons learned. Dashboard remains quietly judgmental.
If you had one hour to improve any of these projects, where would you spend it?
