a 5-month journey powered by delusion, caffeine, and poor decision-making
Welcome to this repository, a digital record of my first ever startup MVP.
Built over ~5 months with the energy of:
- someone who just discovered startup YouTube
- someone who ignored every single piece of advice from said videos
- and someone who thought “yeah this will definitely work”
It did not.
Somewhere between ambition and confusion, this app was born.
I was:
- wildly optimistic
- aggressively overworking
- constantly redesigning things every 2 days
- and absolutely convinced this was going somewhere
Spoiler: it went nowhere.
Total users: 0
Yes. Zero. Not even an accidental signup.
Short answer: everything.
Long answer:
- Built before validating the idea
- Focused on features instead of usefulness
- Changed UI more times than I changed my mind
- Treated an MVP like a full-blown product
- Spent way too much time on things like:
- background removal experiments
- color detection logic
- “perfect” design that kept changing anyway
Basically, I speedran all the classic beginner startup mistakes.
Even though this project flopped commercially, I:
- built a complete MVP from scratch
- explored different technical approaches (many not even in final code)
- learned how not to build a startup
- survived 5 months of consistency (somehow)
This repo is less of a product and more of a time capsule of effort + learning.
- This code is ~7 months old
- There may be:
- bugs
- questionable decisions
- security issues
- “what was I thinking?” moments
Also:
I am not maintaining this.
I am not fixing this.
I am not opening this again.
This project is emotionally archived. 📦
You can try.
But honestly?
I wouldn’t recommend it.
This wasn’t built as a reusable project, it was built as a “let me just ship something and hope it works” MVP.
So yeah… proceed at your own risk 😭
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This wasn’t a success.
But it was important.
It taught me:
- building something ≠ building something people want
- effort ≠ impact
- and most importantly, failure is actually very informative
Would I do it the same way again?
Absolutely not.
Am I glad I did it?
…yeah, kinda.
If you’re here reading this:
- validate your ideas
- don’t overbuild
- and maybe… don’t be as delusional as I was
or do and make your own README like this later 🙂
Read more about my experience here https://medium.com/@aneesafatima238/a-startup-gone-wrong-9fbc17b51608