Winding down some projects
I’ve decided to wind down a handful of projects because I want the feeling of a clean slate. It’s not like these projects took a ton of maintenance (they were purposefully designed to be low maintenance). But there’s something about the feeling of clearing things off your plate that helps creativity reawaken. These projects we’re very expensive, but it felt wasteful to keep them alive when they weren’t getting that much use.
So what did I wind down:
LatLongExcel.com — a gui web application that let users copy and paste a spreadsheet of addresses into a free text box, then it would return geocoded results in tabular format.
GeocodeGPT — a ChatGPT app that pretty much did the same thing — users could copy and paste addresses in bulk into ChatGPT, and GeocodeGPT would call a web service.
Whatsinmyfridge.ai — a web app where users typed in what was in their fridge and it used an OpenAI API to return recipe ideas
GroceryPlaylist.com — a web app that did the reverse. Users typed in meals they wanted to make, and the app spit out grocery lists.
All of the above projects were finished applications, so by winding them down, I killed off the web services (AWS, Google Cloud, 3rd party API’s) and I turned off auto-renewal on the domain names.
I own a handful of domain names that represent unfinished or not started projects and I plan on releasing the domains back into the wild as I’m no longer feeling inspired by the ideas:
10KforDummies.com — a website that helped sales people make sense of a company’s 10k more easily
AccountPlanPro.com — a website that made account planning faster and more thorough for sales people
SEBestPractices.com — a website for sales engineers to level-up their skills
Location.engineering — I don’t really know what this was going to be, I just thought the name sounded cool
To everyone that used these finished services to help geocode addresses or meal plan, I thank you. None of these was a smashing hit, but they were fun and instructive to build. It feels good to get rid of them to make way for newer ideas to take shape.
Here are a couple of screenshots (these both were animated gifs in the production sites):
