​How do you decide which side project idea is actually worth your time?

I’ve spent years getting excited about new side projects, only to get stuck in a loop of “what if this is a waste of time?” That fear of committing months to the wrong idea is a huge motivation killer and has left me with a graveyard of half-finished projects.

It feels like the hardest part of the entire journey is that moment before you start building, when you have a list of decent ideas but no real confidence in any of them.

So I’m genuinely curious about your process:

How do you filter your list of ideas and escape that “analysis paralysis”?

What gives you that final push of confidence to ignore all the other “shiny objects” and commit to building just one?

To solve this for ourselves, we started building a tool to make this decision-making process more structured. The concept is to let you “simulate” your ideas against a simple framework (like market need, your personal passion, required effort, etc.) to get a clearer picture of which one has the best shot.

We’ve just opened it up for a free beta test, and we’re looking for a few other founders who struggle with this to help us shape it. If you’re interested in trying it out and giving some feedback, you can check it out here: