It's OK to abandon your side-project (2024) | Hacker News

A Hacker News discussion argued that side projects can still be valuable even when they are abandoned.

The thread focused on when to stop, how to wrap projects up, and whether a postmortem is worth doing.

Many commenters said unfinished projects often pay off through learning, reusable ideas, and later revisits.

The discussion reframed abandoned experiments as normal in creative and software work, not always as failures.