[pravenj]

Starting 1998, every couple of years I have taken up one or other side projects, which have all ended up not making a penny or even had much visits. My misadventures have been documented really well by the Waybackmachine in archive.org

Here is an example -- https://web.archive.org/web/20001017145942/http://www.nepaln...

This was a travel and hotel booking website we made using Perl starting 1998.

Then there was a Indic text editor tool, based on character map image exchange, that didn't go anywhere. As I was building the editor, so was Unicode becoming more common.

After that was rating system for anything using Pearson’s Correlation Coefficient. I specifically used it for hotels and universities.

Again Wayback machine reminds me that they existed -- https://web.archive.org/web/20130513055430/http://www.prjosh...

In between there were tools for early learners, used goods exchange and even a product demo system where people could give incremental feedback on specific aspects of the product.

After 22 years, I have realized that most projects failed because I was more into the programming aspect of them. Once the products were done programmatically upto a level in which I was satisfied I failed to follow through with marketing or even creating basic awareness.

With that discovered self-realization I started doing things low tech, meaning requiring very less programming work from the start of 2020. This included making videos on youtube and making what I call a Visual encyclopedia website, http://www.viewpedia.org

Now I realize that marketing or awareness creation part is equally hard. I have been trying to get my site ranked on Google and Bing for last few months and haven't gotten anywhere. Youtube videos, the highest count is 500 views.

I hope to document my projects in last 22 years and my current learnings for marketing in articles that I hope to post to HN later.