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by zpk 5164 days ago
Tons. This work is like art, imagine, create, not finish, and toss to the side.

Here's a few that come to mind:

'07 - A Search Engine that used MS/GOOGLE/YAHOO as my seed and resorted the order based on some composite ranking from comparing the three results.

'08 - An Email Myself Blogging service that took some words, links, and posted it on the date in the email.

'09 - A Local Coupon site to work against Valpak. You could throttle the amount discounted so you didn't have the Group On effect. I came back to this idea 20x, but in order for it to work you have to hit the pavement and talk to store/rest/bar owners.

'10 - Social networking site for fitness with a workout tracking tool.

'11 - Quit a company that got bought by Google (just had to get it off my chest)

'12 - Notes sharing tool that's transformed into something else. I stopped for a month on it, bugged me so much that finally late March I got back on that damn horse. In 4 weekends I have POC (like a lawn motor on wheels) that finally worked...but I'm excited about it now.

In the end that # of projects doesn't count for a damn thing. Everyone of those ideas listed above could work, have worked for someone else. Someone that saw one thing to the end. You aren't alone though, so don't beat yourself up one bit.

1, that's the number I am going to focus on this year. Finishing one idea out.