I keep falling into the same trap - get excited, start a project, work on it for a bit, get bored of it, think of another project, repeat. I'm not alone. But, I'm trying to be better. After all, I want to build the habit of completing projects. Part of that is defining, before starting, when a project is done. It's too easy to let the project grow by saying yes to small bits of extra work! The reason its easy is that future work is like debt - take it out now and you don't have to pay it until you start work. At some point, though, that debt load gets too high. The expectations, the daily investment needed, the lack of reward, it all comes crumbling down and the project becomes a chore, neglected, and eventually suppressed. There's always some guilt involved though... why start a project that you weren't planning on finishing? And so instead of taking out debt for future projects, I'm trying to be better at paying off existing loans before taking on new ones. This post is a tribute to the many projects that I've started but haven't quite let go of yet. Each of them showed some potential, but met an untimely end. With their passing, I'm freed to focus on the projects that I need to finish instead. This is me consolidating my debt and trying to re-finance. Let's get started with the funeral procession and go over the projects. - [[Website/Tick Task]] - [[Website/Promptly]] - [[Website/Jekyll Website]] - [[Website/Counting Stickers]] - [[Website/Personal Macros]] - [[Website/Protyper]] - [[Website/tenhittender streaming]] - [[Website/Chatty App]] - [[Website/Nudge Budget]] - [[Website/Ghost Blog]] These projects took time and rewarded me with some fun and useful additions to my life. I appreciate them for what they are, but wrote up this postmortem to say goodbye. The project is dead, long live the project!