Projects & failures
I started creating websites around 1999, when I was in CM2 (5th grade), using just Notepad and a book on HTML. At first, I didn't even know how to put them online. Then, years later I discovered I could host them using Free's service, which offered free website hosting at yourusername.free.fr. This led me to subscribe to multiple pay-as-you-go internet plans just to get more usernames. Thank you, Xavier Niel!
| Date | Name | Status | Description |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2005 | Hackers Challenge | running | Knorc's Hacker's Challenge was a puzzle, programming, and hacking challenge before CTF challenges existed |
| 2006 | Car For Free | canceled | When the Million Dollar Homepage became popular, it inspired me to create a website on the same principle where people would bid on advertising on a car. The whole budget would be spent on buying a car, so advertisers might get space on a Lamborghini if I got enough money. That was my smart way of getting a car for free. The website was cleverly called www.car.for.free.fr (because Free offered free websites ending in free.fr) |
| 2007 | Aerodynamite | canceled | Aerodynamite was a 3D game that allowed you to pilot a Mirage 2000 with realistic physics |
| 2008 | Psychomoteur DECADI | canceled | This was my real first attempt at selling software. I built software to train for the "Pilotes Cadet d'Air France"'s selection exam, and more specifically its psychomotor test. Unfortunately, the recruitment was canceled the year after I built the software, so I never sold it even though it was working. There is still a short and buggy demo video on Youtube |
| 2009 | Miuwee | canceled | Netflix (kind of). This was my attempt at building a legal movie streaming service. At the time, Deezer and Spotify started to emerge with freemium models, but there were still a lot an illegal streaming websites for movies so I wanted to create a sort of Netflix before Netflix. I wrote a very detailed Business Plan, started experimenting with the tech, contacted an incubator, and started writing a blog about cinema. I then stopped working on it because the tech was too complicated at the time and it would have been a real pain to get access to movie catalogues. |
| 2010 | How evil are you? | closed | How evil are you? was a Facebook app inspired by the Purity test. I thought the app would get viral and attempted to generate revenue from ads but I only got a few thousand users. |
| 2011 | Highnimal | canceled | Highnimal was a pet social network started during my first Startup Weekend |
| 2011 | Social Voucher | canceled | Social Voucher was a Prestashop addon that would give your e-commerce website's customers a discount when they share what they bought with their friends on Facebook. The addon was working but I never sold it. |
| 2012 | Ebook Seduction | closed | This was a website selling . It generated me some passive revenue with referral links, but the website closed when I forgot to renew the domain name. |
| 2013 | Formation Photoshop | canceled | I started recording myself giving Photoshop courses because I thought it would generate passive revenue quite easily. I eventually got bored and did not release it, even thought I had the website. |
| 2014-2021 | Datananas | acquired | Datananas is a sales engagement software for salespeople. When I started it, it was a Chrome addon that would scrape prospects on LinkedIn and guess their corporate email address using an algorithm. Datananas has been acquired by Sarbacane in 2020. |
| 2016 | Youtubeurs | closed | Youtubeurs.fr was a directory of all french Youtube channels by category, because I wanted a way to easily find new interesting Youtube channels. You could also see subscribers statistics and track the largest Youtube channels. |
| 2021 | Beanvest | running | Beanvest is a stock portfolio performance tracker for investors |
| 2022 | YEAR OFF | 🇹🇭🇰🇭🇻🇳🇮🇩🇰🇷🇺🇸🇲🇽🇧🇿🇬🇹🇨🇴🇨🇱 🇦🇷🇧🇷 | |
| 2023 | Memorable Password Generator | running | Free Chrome extension to generate memorable passwords |
| 2023 | appwatch | closed | Chrome extensions / Shopify Applications Database |
| 2023 | Ocean Map | wip | Scubadiving Guide |
| 2024 | Emailcream | running | Find and bookmark the best email marketing campaigns. Launched with Nicolas |
| 2024 | Melies | running | AI Filmmaking software |
| 2024 | Midjourney Sref | running | Curated collection of --sref codes for Midjourney |
| 2024 | Fête des pères | running | Content site about father's day |
| 2024 | AI film tools | running | Directory about tools to make films using AI |
"I have not failed. I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." Thomas Edison