All the projects I haven't launched

Inspired by @levelsio’s tweet about only 4 of his 70+ projects making money, and a similar idea at dare.fail, I want to list out all the projects I have started, but haven’t launched for a variety of reasons. Through this I hope I can inspire other folks to share their journey as well. This is an ongoing list and will be updated as I try out more ideas:

1. CoffeeX

Web app that allows users to order from a menu of Vietnamese coffee drinks, to be delivered on a date and time of their choosing.

Reason for not launching: We never got around to launch the physical operations side of things (i.e. making the actual coffee drinks and delivering)

Learnings: Learned Next.js to create static sites, and hosted app on Vercel. Integrated with Stripe and Paypal to take payments from users

2. 12 Chom Sao (12 Zodiac signs)

This idea came about because many of my friends were obsessed with astrology, both the 12 Western zodiac signs and the 12 Eastern zodiac animals. All the existing websites or apps which showed this information in Vietnamese had horrible UX, so I wanted to create a beautiful app that people could easily use to look up astrology info when they want to.

Reason for not launching: Lost motivation since it wasn’t a topic I cared deeply about myself

Learnings: Learned React Native and Expo to develop and build a mobile app

3. One Percent Tracker

Inspired by James Clear’s idea in the book Atomic Habits: “If you get one percent better each day for one year, you’ll end up thirty-seven times better by the time you’re done”.

I wanted to create an app that allows you to mark whatever you are working on each day, and it will display how much better you have got since you started. The idea is that people will stay motivated on their goal if they see how much progress they have made so far.

Reason for not launching: Got sidetracked, but I haven’t given up on the idea yet!

Learnings: Instead of coding the mobile app using React Native, I started with using FlutterFlow, a no/low-code platform for creating mobile apps. It allowed me to quickly create some mobile screens just through drag-and-drop, and I could still extend the functionality with my custom code.