Zach Dicklin bravo, man. You deserve a ton of credit simply for taking action and trying different things. You don’t have any issues with execution, which is where most people get stuck, and you’ve already created more than most people ever will.
Considering that “worthless”, is one of the words you used in your headline, it seems that you’re looking back on all these projects and evaluating their value based on their potential to generate monetary rewards, and that’s where I get confused.
To pose a perfectly candid question to you, how did you think that the above projects had any commercial viability? Rentabuild and Bloom could both have potential, but I’m struggling to see how you might have expected any of the other projects to pay any bills. That’s not a dig on you at all, but rather an observation that perhaps you‘re evaluating the value of these projects differently now than you did when you were working on them.
I believe that taking an idea that can solve a problem or fulfill a need and turning that into a product or service that adds value to people’s lives is a noble pursuit. If you can do that successfully you deserve every bit of the rewards (monetary and otherwise) that you receive. You are a builder and a doer, so hook up with other people that are thinkers, connectors and promoters… people that might have a really good idea of big problems that are just begging to be solved and that also understand the economics around them. If you can find others with complementary perspectives, you can direct your efforts toward something that pays you back in spades.
