My projects folder used to be a graveyard. Dozens of half built apps that all died at the same stage: the eighty percent done mark where the last twenty percent takes six months. So I adopted a rule that sounds extreme. Every project ships within forty eight hours or it dies. Not pauses. Dies. Deleted. The rule forces brutal scope decisions before you write a line of code. No auth system, use the platform one. No database migrations, start with a single table. No settings page, ever. What survives the rule is small, but alive and in users' hands. My graveyard projects taught me nothing. My tiny shipped ones taught me everything. Small and shipped beats ambitious and dead.