I Tried to Build Everything. I Shipped Nothing. Punchy, honest, and relatable to every developer.

I joined a hackathon recently. The goal was to build something that could read and interpret Braille using Computer Vision.

I had the idea. I had the motivation. And then I tried to do everything at once.

File upload. Real-time processing. Multiple AI integrations. No clear focus. No clean output. No accuracy worth showing.

I did not finish it the way I wanted to.

But I have been thinking about it since, and I realized the project was never the problem. The approach was. Trying to build everything is how you end up shipping nothing.