Failed Projects (so far)

A collection of failed projects which I launched in the past decade (2010-2020). I only included the one for which I at least finished the MVP and launched a website or an app on a public domain.

EmailExtract

08/2011: Firefox addon written in JavaScript to extract email address from a webpage. Back in the days when XUL format was used. It was a lead generation tool that keeps note of email addresses found in contact us pages.

StatMatch

12/2012: This was my first project in nodeJS and NoSQL DB. It was a hobby project that generated small quizzes and trivia questions from a database. I used the world bank database to seed the question bank.

Backtester

11/2012: Inspired by Quantopian, I wanted to write my own backtesting engine. I implemented it in C++ using boost libraries. In the end it was just a CLI application and I never finished it to make a hostable web application.

Hokum

06/2014: This was a serious product to leverage E-commerce affiliate marketing. Inspired by the PC part picker, I wrote it in .NET web framework hoping that the better UI could be an USP.

Ngoll

07/2014: A tiny side project that I thought could have a social impact as well. A review and discovery platform for registered NGOs. It was written using couchDB and its HTTP interface.

WebPerfAnalyzer

06/2014: Started as a hackathon project. Built using a selenium web driver and Firebug (a firefox addon) it was very similar to Browserstack.

RedditBot

12/2014: Karma farming Reddit bot written in Python. That finds, upvotes and comments on posts . It didn’t use NLP/AI or any fancy things to generate the comment. I crawled Reddit and created a database of valid and generic comments. Then used tags to match relevant posts where those comments make most sense. Worked 90% of the time.

Arithmancy

03/2015: I got the idea to create this app while watching Calculator Unboxing of Little Professor. I wanted to experiment with a cross platform framework and wrote this in Ionic. This was my first mobile application as well.

Gober

01/2016: Another lead generation tool written in Go. Main aim was to learn Go and write a parallel processing web crawler with it. As for application it was very like services that tell you the tech stack of a web application.

TheWiseBanyan

09/2016: A book rental and review service written in .NET. Discussion board similar to reddit and a replacement of goodreads with a rental service for second hand books.

SwiftReads

02/2017: A collection of micro fiction to be read in an android application. SwiftReads was a collection of public domain short stories written by forgotten authors.

Ogleum

03/2017: My second native android application. A light weight and simple Reddit client for image browsing.

Chefbook

07/2017: A recipe book for home chefs. Another native android application that was much richer in features than whatever I had built before.

Knoetical

09/2018: Customer review and analysis platform to extract actionable insight from communications using NLP. This was built on a much larger scale than anything else I had created before. Created at least five addons for different platforms to integrate this service.

Deepwav

09/2019: Customer support call review and quality assurance using speech analytics. It was kind of an extension of knoetical.

Gleaner

09/2020: Generate investment portfolios by combining existing portfolios.