47 commits. Zero users. Then 13 days changed the math.

Three months of commits. Private repo. Never deployed. That's not a story about a bad project. The project was fine — a UAV mission planner that could generate flight paths and export KML files. Clean idea. Technically interesting. Real use case. It just never left the hard drive. Here's the thing nobody tells you about side projects that stall: the blocker is almost never the code. The code gets written. It gets rewritten. Refactored. The folder structure gets reorganized twice. A new branch ap