Dead Project - Tools And Techniques Against The Machines

Tue, 04 Aug 2026 19:30:01 +0100

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This is the third in a planned series of posts about dead or frozen projects - ideas I’ve had that I’ve consciously decided not to follow up on, rather than just putting them to one side.

I’m writing these up for a variety of reasons:

To demonstrate how many ideas I have, to help me determine whether that number of ideas is unusual.
To get feedback on whether I should have tried to do more with the idea, was there an angle or benefit that I missed?
So others can highlight to me whether someone has tried the idea already, and whether it succeeded or not.
To encourage others to share their own ideas, especially if they’re similarly incomplete, failed, or half-baked.

Also sharing these kinds of “dead projects” has been an idea that’s been rattling around my brain for some time, but I was finally inspired to start writing them up after attending a couple of Stefan Hagar’s Valhalla For Ideas sessions. Valhalla For Ideas is a structured way of working through old plans that we’re hanging onto, to either let them go, or to breathe new life into them. You can read more about Stefan’s services here, and we may be working together in some of those sessions in future.

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Dead Project - Tools And Techniques Against The Machines