Abandoned Projects
It’s 2025 and I’ve been coding side-projects since 2017. Two more years and it reaches 10 years of trying to build ideas that I randomly remember of. Most of these ideas die one week after I start working on them, so I compiled a list and will expose them here. Feel free to pick any of them up :)
Familify
Created in late 2019 after graduating from university. My plans were to make a web app which my family could use to stream videos in their homes in a private and secret way. I never picked on the project.
ipp-ementa
Created in late 2019 since I had the ambition of centralizing my university canteen menus access. This product was killed by the own university as they later released their own scheduling service.
random-apis
Also in 2019 I had the brilliant stupid idea of creating small, random APIs that everyone could consume. Things like a calculator api, sorting api, etc. Never picked it up.
dronuino
The idea was to code a mobile app that you could use to control a drone made out of Arduino. 2019 was a wild year.
black-corporation-portugal
LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOL I once saw a website that lists shitty corporations and the things they did to become shitty (2020). I wanted to bring this to the Portuguese scene but never picked it up. Probably it was the best for me since you shouldn’t mess with rich people.
joe-dawji
Yet another one of my genius ideas for an Instagram bot (2019). It was a bot that would message you “Your mama” everytime you would comment “Who’s joe?” on Instagram. Glad I grew up.
zammy-app
I don’t remember what this was but had to be created in 2020.
flutter-animations
A project solely for demonstrating cool animations made in Flutter (2020). 0 demonstrations were done.
unexpected-flutter
I guess it was something related to Flutter, never picked it up (2020).
flusiza
An enterprise ready Flutter app generator (2020-2021). Guess I should have invested on this now that people make a living out of selling React templates.
zindescript
A JavaScript DSL which used Portuguese cursing and jargon to write programs (2020). Super glad I grew up.
colleaguetrackify
A dashboard to track on old colleagues. Shitty stalking stuff (2021).
hype-hopium-wave-riders
A games/app collective mostly on Web3. Never picked this up.
software-referencias
A glossary of terms used in Software Engineering. My goal was to establish an universal/ubiquitous language so all programmers/developers/engineers can understand each other (2021).
ferramentas
A collection of tools used in pentesting/red teaming. Never picked it up (2021).
hackathonz
Tracking all hackathons I participated. Only one so far lmao (2021).
info-zec
A collection of Proof-of-Concepts (PoC) related to security stuff (2022).
angrycreepers
Minecraft server configuration (2022) for a friend-gaming group I’m in. Never picked it up.
negociacao
Back when I was invested into Crypto trading (2022). Never dig into it since the 2022 winter market crash.
shopzzz
A collective of digital stores (2022). So many ideas, yet so little money (0€) made.
partidosocial
Created this org solely to reserve a Portuguese left political party (2021). The thing is, I’m not even into politics lmao.
noduotchi
A Web3 game in the Tamagochi world (2022).
web3-box
A collective of Web3 tech (2022). So many Web3 stuff.
crazy-shenanigans
Crazy game ideas me and a friend tried bringing to reality. Never brought to life (2023).
gatoflows
A collection of GitHub Workflows. Actually solid idea but it was more one of those funnies that you only invest 3 days in (2023).
palavrapasse
A haveibeenpwned clone for portuguese sites. Abandoned due to technical debt and technical requirements (looks like a raspberry really can’t handle a 10M records SQLite database lmaooo) (2022).
rifa-web3
A raffle system for the Web3 space (2022).
paginasvermelhas
An OSINT tool that essentially tries to dox everyone by their phone number (2022). Abandoned because I’m pretty sure this is illegal.
nolytics
An analytics engine that worked without JavaScript (2023). Abandoned because you really cant get far without using JavaScript.
readme-fun
A platform for creating newsletters that distribute one cool thing to read everyday (2023).
cat-apple
What the fuck was even this? A newsletter for cats?? (2023)
bottlegarden
Now this was a cool idea! Selling bottles with small gardens inside (2023).
open-copyright
A platform that tells you if a song is copyright-free/streamable (2023).
simple-instagram-media-grabber
Download Instagram content from the command-line (2017)
Genders
A Google Chrome extension that converted text to binary format (2017). Yes that name is real, I was really edgy back then!
Fruity
My first attempt at making a software library (2017). In this case it was a Java library and it offered functions for sorting and encrypting strings.
Prometh
My first and one of many Instagram bots (2017). What the fuck even is this name?
Monday
An attempt at making a GitHub bot that spams users by creating issues in their repositories (2018). Yes I’m dumb.
steam-friend-comparer
My first web scrapping project, a python script that used beautifulsoup to parse Steam user profiles and printed which friends they had in common (2018). Why I made this? Great question
instagram-post-commenter
Yet another Instagram bot (2018). This one in Python and focused on commenting on new posts ASAP.
instagram-stasher
You can guess what this is 💀 (2018)
GitLite
Probably my first great idea, a lightweight mobile client for accessing GitHub (2018). There was no app back then and I also wanted to use Flutter (which was still in beta) for this. Unfortunately never picked this up.
github-repo-contributors-scraper
Guess I fell in love with bots and scrapers at this time (2018). The name explains it all.
shiftgram
The idea was to create a web app that ported the following users of an account to a different account (2019).
json-translator
Somehow managed to create an API that would translate a localization JSON file to different languages (2019).
lemonade-stand
My idea was to build a pure CSS banner that would incentivize people to donate you by virtually buying a lemonade juice (2019).
broadcast-messenger
I had the brilliant idea of building a system for relaying messages to different chat apps (2019). I should have built this as it’s very profitable!
push-my-git-forgetfulness
A Flutter app that would send me a notification whenever I pushed something to GitHub (2019). Weird idea, never picked it up.
mdt-api
Was inspired by the popular API that returns Kanye West twitter quotes and decided to create an API but for things the president of Portugal (Marcelo Rebelo de Sousa) said (2019)
instant-comment
Yet another Instagram automation/bot, this one in JavaScript (2019)
ping
A counter API that I used to test SSRF (Server Side Request Forgery) (2019)
isep-mobile
A Flutter app for accessing my university information system (2019)
thispersonisa.monster
A web app that showcased really shitty people. Like people that did crimes n shit. I really don’t know where I took these ideas (2020)
liquids-reaction
An app which solely purpose was to demonstrate what happens if you mix liquid A with liquid B. Kaboom! (2020)
sql.playground
A playground for testing SQL skills, given a schema and data, the goal was to write a SQL query that returned the expected rows (2020). Actually a great idea and I might pick this one up one day.
choreography-attack-heroku
The goal was to take advantage of Heroku free deployments to build a coordinated HTTP bomb against a website (2020). I can still use Heroku, so needless to say that this idea wasn’t successful.
flutter-dependencies-visuallizer
Got inspired by bundlephobia and wanted to build the same for Flutter/Dart pub packages (2020)
auto-correct-github
An active bot that crawls GitHub repositories searching for typos and missconfigurations, opening up a pull-request to suggest a correction (2020)
minimax.dart
Decided it was a good idea to bring minimax heuristics to Dart, probably to build a game that is impossible to win (2020)