I recently reviewed my Vercel dashboard and came to an unexpected conclusion: I appear to be speedrunning side projects as if it were a professional obligation.
- There’s Digital Guilt Trap, a minimalist experiment in user interaction that applies light emotional pressure via buttons.
- The Checker, which attempts to analyze personality traits and then politely passes judgment.
- Quantum Weather, where forecasts are technically accurate but emotionally questionable.
- A deliberately Useless Website that does almost nothing, yet still managed to require mobile bug fixes.
- And my Portfolio, now tasked with explaining how all of the above are connected.
None of these projects were built to chase virality. They were built to ship, deploy, and expose the realities of production environments rather than hypothetical perfection. Each one reinforced a familiar lesson: user experience is deceptive, mobile layouts are unforgiving, and committing code is more productive than overthinking it.
If you are waiting for the perfect idea, consider not doing that. Build the imperfect one instead. Deploy it, improve it, and move forward. Momentum remains undefeated.
Projects shipped. Lessons learned. Dashboard remains quietly judgmental.
If you had one hour to improve any of these projects, where would you spend it?
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I’m a big believer in the Ship First, Perfect Later philosophy. Momentum really is the best antidote to overthinking.
If I had one hour, I’d spend it on Digital Guilt Trap. I’d add a small Observability layer to track exactly which button-pressure tactics work best. It’s always fascinating to see how 'minimalist experiments' behave once real users start interacting with them!
P.S: I absolutely love the UI on your portfolio! Makes me feel like I am on the computer on cyberpunk 2077😂 so cool
THANK YOU SIR, I'll do it and can you tell me what else can I improve or are there any other idea that I should build to make my portfolio better
Can I get the repository. Because I want an idea for final year project
yeah you can find them on my profile
But please can you help me with a project idea because I have come up with some but got the idea rejected. So any idea that you have being it mobile or web or IoT and if you have the repo of the project. Will be grateful thank you
I HAVE MANY IDEA...DO YOU HAVE A Specific type of field(med ed-tech or make something for fun)?? I WOULD LOVE TO HELP YOU
Well any field will work just that it has to solve a problem. And we can maybe integrate AI to it. But any field will work
Thank you
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