Killed by Steve

Projects I built, shipped and buried. Each one taught me something.

Cause of death. Retention. D1 21%, D7 7%, D14 0.3%.
“A tool for emergencies is not a daily habit.”

Cause of death. The cholera outbreak ended. So did the need.
“Some apps are meant to be temporary.”

Manyumba

Cause of death. Messy WhatsApp data. The pipeline cost more than the market paid.
“Taught me LLM data pipelines the hard way.”

Go · OpenAI · Real estate

† 2024 — 2025