Arun Balachandran
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Abandoned · Apr 2025 · 2 weeks

The one I gave up on

Two weeks of work, one conversation with a real user, and a decision I still think was the right one.

Role
Solo
Stack
Never got past a prototype
Status
Stopped after the first real user
Links
Post-mortem
Architecture diagram or dashboard shot goes here

The problem

Two or three paragraphs on the situation and why the obvious answer was wrong. Keep it concrete — a number, a failure, a constraint.

What I did

The work itself. Decisions and trade-offs, not a tour of the tech stack.

What came out of it

Results, and the part that did not work. The second half is what makes the first half believable.