Fifteen projects, one payment

The freshly updated portfolio page becomes a confession booth: more than 15 projects in 7 months ▸ 10:07, each with an honest cause of death. Homigo drowned in research. VibeCell paused because Excel’s beautiful chaos defeats models, the product he wanted lives at the intersection of AI-friendly and human-friendly ▸ 15:34, though Claude may since have closed the gap. Piqui’s problem is named in five words, “no sabemos cómo venderlo” ▸ 18:48. Koby has the most users, roughly 200 registered, and taught the cloud-bill lesson, a 20,000-peso first month optimized down to 700 ▸ 23:39. Three language apps in a row expose the pattern he can’t drop: “hasta que no rompa el código, no me dan ganas de parar” ▸ 17:42.

The uncomfortable datum sits in the middle of the tour: Divo, the drag-and-drop site builder, is the project he least enjoyed working on, it kept breaking, and it is the only one that has ever produced revenue ▸ 19:35. Ten dollars, one customer, but a category of one, which is why it’s next in line for iteration after Severo ships ▸ 19:56.

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Two ghosts round out the audit. Tencargo: they were a hair from taking the padrino’s money, and hindsight endorses his old verdict word for word, “si ustedes fueran apasionados por esto, no se hubieran caído tan fácil” ▸ 32:44, proven by contrast with the language apps he rebuilds despite 50,000 competitors ▸ 32:53. And Da Vinci, his childhood idol, gets demoted and reclaimed in one move: the man tried everything, took years to finish anything, lived off mecenas, today’s angel investors ▸ 11:26, and published nothing ▸ 7:28, a warning label for an explorer who has also tried six sports, five instruments, 3D printing, NFTs and TikTok ▸ 39:05, in an era that pays for hyperspecialization ▸ 8:56. Fifteen darts thrown. The map of where they landed is finally being read…