Ask HN: What's a side project you built to make money that hasn't?
I've maxed out a couple credit cards and spent all my severance pay etc. trying to finish building this '3D abstract visual debugger,' which I'm calling Lucidity [video]: <a href="http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd" rel="nofollow">http://symbolflux.com/projects/avd</a><p>I started working on it in 2014 and it's been on my mind ever since. I applied to YC with it a long time ago (was not accepted, and I can see <i>so</i> much wrong with the application I sent now...) I was laid off in November so I jumped back into the project and have been working on it since.<p>The main thing I'm planning on changing up now is: it's too general purpose—closer to a platform than a specific product. So next I'll focus on building one particular product on top of it: something kind of like Chrome's object browser (which you get when using console.log)—but showing dynamic structural changes in time (steppable/reversible), and being multi-language.<p>The other main issue is that, even though I'm trying to get it into user's hands as soon as possible, it has been a giant task for me to get even an alpha of this thing together on my own,—though I am damn close now. And my sister has been helping a bit recently.<p>Edit: direct link to video: <a href="https://youtu.be/KwZmAgAuIkY" rel="nofollow">https://youtu.be/KwZmAgAuIkY</a>  (looks much better full size!)