What is your most recent failure?

Hello Indiehackers!

My most recent failure/halt is Tazzo Website Builder

It's a drag-drop website builder that also connects to Airtable to pull in the dynamic data.

Intro

Initially, it went great. I was inspired by Sheet2Site which makes websites from Google Sheets and I was all motivated to make something like that, but for Airtable.

My vision was a drag and drop builder where you drop static blocks (or) dynamic blocks which you connect to different airtables.

Eventually, I fell into a feature-dreaming loop 🤩 , but although I didn't make those features, I was now changing my foundation.

I re-wrote my foundation from scratch. Twice. 😪

As I built the site, I realized there were a lot of things I missed with theming and restyling, so I started to fix those things.

Ineffective user interviews

I then went around with a half working prototype to ask people what they think and how it goes.

I bumped into a group of users and turns out they were all hardcore fans of Webflow and didn't show much interest in this. 🥱

This heavily demotivated me... but surely there must be users around there who would be interested in this idea right?

"Because if a market for No-Code Website Builders exists, then, Airtable to Websites must exist too right?", is what I thought.

Bad Feature Decisions

Then I met a customer group who asked if this would support "Export Code"

"Yes! It will 😏", I said, and without a second thought, went ahead writing a transpiler which would could "Export Code"

The transpiler was working great. The codebase is exporting.

But this left other styling features incompatible and now I had to somehow re-edit my blueprint structure.

At this point, it has already been 6 weeks of no-break full-time work on this.

I was burned out 😫 ... and had to take a break.

Trying to revisit

I took a break for a couple of weeks and when I went back, I had written the most messed up source code that was built on a foundation for a different use-case connected to a code exporter.

I myself found it very difficult to read the code and now, have absolutely no motivation to fix it.

As of now - Tazzo is indefinitely paused... ⏸😌

What about you?

I would love to read about your failures and how it happened.

Tell it out! Write 'em below 👇