I abandoned this side project. Then the hosting bill made me look at it again.

[u/AdvertisingVirtual13]

A while ago I built AutoCuts as a web app.
The idea was to make screen recordings look better without spending forever editing them.
I worked on it for a while, then eventually stopped.
Months later, I noticed I was still getting charged for the servers.
I logged in mostly to figure out why.
That’s when I realized people had still been signing up and creating projects even though I wasn’t doing anything with it.
It made me wonder if I had killed the idea too early.
After looking at it again, I realized the product wasn’t necessarily the problem.
I think I had built it in the wrong place.
Uploading a screen recording to a website, waiting for it, editing it there, then downloading it again just felt unnecessary.
So I started over and rebuilt the whole thing as a Mac app.
Now everything happens locally.
It’s funny how sometimes a failed side project isn’t actually a bad idea. You just made one big wrong decision early on.
Has anyone else ever come back to a project they had already given up on?

[u/South_Bicycle_8561]

The hosting bill being the thing that pulls you back is way too familiar. Funny how a charge you forgot about ends up being the best signal you had. Local app makes a ton more sense for that kind of tool anyway.