I’ve been running nan0banana.pro for a while now, and at this point, I’m well past the phase where optimism does any real work.
The site has problems. A lot of them.
And I’m aware of most of them.
The one users feel the most is generation speed. It’s slow. Not “a little annoying” slow, but slow enough to make you question whether you should wait or just close the tab. I see it. I know it. I wish it weren’t true.
What’s harder to explain is that this isn’t a bug you fix in a weekend.
Speed in AI systems is tangled with things you can’t just refactor away. Models, infrastructure, costs, limits that don’t care how motivated you are. At some point, you stop debugging and start accepting that you’re hitting walls you didn’t build alone.
And outside the code, things haven’t been great either.
The team has gone through changes. Not the clean, exciting kind. The exhausting kind. Focus got fragmented. Energy drained faster than progress showed. Some days, keeping the project alive felt like the only realistic win.
I don’t have the time or mental space right now to do the kind of deep cleanup this project deserves. And pretending otherwise would be dishonest. nan0banana.pro is running, yes — but it’s running on compromises, half-decisions, and postponed refactors.
This isn’t me quitting.
It’s me admitting that I’m tired.
I still care about the project. I still want it to be better. I just don’t have the capacity at the moment to push it forward the way I imagined when I started. And maybe that’s a phase every builder hits, especially when a project stops being new and starts being real.
For now, nan0banana.pro stays online as it is: flawed, slower than it should be, and unfinished in ways that matter.
I’m hoping that one day soon, I’ll have enough distance and time to come back with clearer eyes and steadier hands.
Until then, this post is just honesty.
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