Ask HN: What were your failed ideas? Here are some of mine...

Some of the ideas, for the curious, not in correct order 1. I thought that I could use Trolltech QT, when the green phone was coming out, to write apps, etc. The green phone never took off and was horrible to program with. 2. I was writing backup software, OSX, successfully. Took on a partner for sales and he essentially killed everything. Sold the source code after a few years of it sitting idle for a few MacBook's, decked out and misc hardware. 3. Started a 501c3 for storing information and could never get to writing the product with all the administration duties, compliance issues, etc. 4. Started an ISP/co-lo back in 2003-2005 when I lived in a small town in NY. It was pretty successful. I broke even with all the bandwidth expenses, racks of hardware, etc. Eventually sold for very cheap when I just couldn't keep up with the company that had been in town forever. 5. I bought a popular text editor and worked on it for years and just couldn't get it to where I wanted it. I always had more to do and just couldn't get versions out. I still have this code and consider getting back to it someday. 6. What am I doing now? Shh its private until January.