Wow, you've sold a lot of sites. How does that work?

I should make a page of ‘Every Side Project I haven’t quite finished building since 2009’

But it would be so huge I can’t afford the hosting bill.

Love it, especially your latest post on bringing back fun websites. Bought a block on ‘Stack your project’!

Looks great

Symbol hunt is broken :( (FWIW, I had the same error on my website, seems PHP needs to be updated)

I wish I had this energy again.

I've got a list of side projects to get on with. I've made little progress in the last year, and suspect its burn out to blame - I'm just constantly exhausted.

I think if you have the energy, this is awesome fun. It might even get to the point where one of them makes some decent income.

But if you don't, like me, just realise that there is a reason for that, and it's OK. You need rest and relaxation, and it's OK to prioritise that.

This is beautiful. I think I'll add a similar page to my website. Side projects are what I look forward to!

Right now, I just have my blog + github as a messy portfolio of personal projects, but I like this much better.

Virtual hat tip to ya!

I finally have four ideas that I think worthy to build that I would like to monetize. All would be well within my abilities to build. No vision of grandeur that I'd retire from any of them and if I made $100 from one site I'd be ecstatic.

Two are simple games, one a directory and one a utility type site. No AI, no sign-up, no affiliate marketing, no upselling, just simple sites with ads.

However, my "paralysis by analysis" affliction is strong.

Very cool! How do you know when a project is done?

How have you found buyers for your projects?

:'( I would need to make one for side projects I have abandoned since 2020 (besides my blog)

That's a pretty high percentage of sold vs dead products. I think most people would be lucky to sell even one side project.

I once had a list similar in time and length. It was a great portfolio, but I slowly realized I just made it to remind myself I'm not a perpetually incapable imbecile. Deleting it and giving away those projects was so freeing. I had nothing left to prove to myself or anyone else. Now I can just write code for fun, code that I believed in. Not saying this is OP's motivation or anyone else's, but it was definitely mine.

Which was your fav? Fun site!