Most of your side projects are dying because you're trying too hard.
Seriously. We developers, with our boundless creativity and love for elegant solutions, often inadvertently smother our side projects with an excess of complexity before they even have a chance to breathe. This isn't about laziness; it's about a mindset shift.
The core problem? We treat a weekend hackathon idea like a funded startup with enterprise-level requirements. We see a simple need, and immediately jump to a full-stack, microservice-architected, Docker-composed, CI/CD-pipelined, globally-distributed solution. And then... we burn out.
Let's break down how complexity creeps in:
The Shiny New Tech Allure: Ever started a simple blog and thought, "This is the perfect excuse to learn SvelteKit with serverless functions and a GraphQL API on AWS Lambda!"? Guilty as charged. Instead of just getting content online, we get lost in configuration files.
