đź’€ Welcome to deadinit.dev
A startup devlog for those who build, break, and barely sleep
Hey, welcome.
You’ve stumbled into deadinit.dev, where startups are messy, side projects accidentally become platforms, and debugging at 2 a.m. is a love language.
This blog is for devs who ship too fast, founders who pivot mid-sentence, and anyone who’s ever replaced an MVP with a meme. We’re here to document the real startup journey - not the polished TechCrunch version, but the one with 42 tabs open, a rogue cron job in prod, and a Git commit that just says:
"pls work"
This isn’t your average “I raised $10M before breakfast” blog. This is for those who:
- Thought they could fix their architecture by renaming folders (again)
- Spun up a Docker container and accidentally started a religion
- Forgot what their startup actually does halfway through the README
- And still keep building - because we can’t not
🧠What You’ll Get Here
🔧 Unhinged Dev Logs
IDE rants, AI tool overloads, cursed config files, and full rewrites of stuff that was working yesterday.
📉 Founder's Failbook
Real stories from the trenches: pivoting, burning out, bouncing back, and laughing through the wreckage.
🧪 Side Project Diaries
Weekend hacks that turned into platforms. UIs held together by vibes. Hobbies that became your entire identity.
đź“š Unfiltered Lessons
Not clickbait - just the “oh no” moments turned into “aha” learnings, so you can fail slightly better than we did.
🫠Founder’s Therapy (Disguised as Posts)
Late-night realizations, messy product pivots, and launching features no one asked for.
🧨 Developer Chaos Logs
Real dev problems. Real debugging. Real tears. Including the time we built a CLI for a dog by accident.
💥 Failures We’re Proud Of
Because not everything needs to work. Sometimes you ship it. Sometimes you brick prod. Either way, it’s content.
🚀 Open Source Dopamine
Code snippets, cursed tools, and weird setups you can clone, tweak, or regret immediately.
📌 Why “deadinit”?
Because sometimes you start something with all the hope in the world...
...and it dies in init().
But that’s fine. You refactor. Restart. Or at least write a spicy blog post about it.
🧵 Why This Blog?
Because there’s not enough real talk about building in public while falling apart in private.
Founding a startup and writing the code is like herding cats while deploying the cat-tracking system in prod. So this devlog is for the rest of us - the ones who learn by doing, learn more by failing, and then build something even dumber… but better.
New posts weekly (or whenever burnout lets us):
First up: “Too Many AI Dev Tools, Not Enough Dopamine” - a cautionary tale featuring Cursor, Windsurf, Replit, and poor impulse control.
If you’ve ever built a tool to manage your other tools, forgot what you were doing mid-sprint, or turned a YAML file into a personality test - this blog is for you.
Follow along.
– The dev(s) behind deadinit.dev
Still initializing. May never be stable.