The Manifesto: Why 'Nothing Has to Succeed' is the Best Mindset

Somewhere around 2016, hobby programming was replaced by “building micro-SaaS businesses.”

Suddenly, if you wanted to build a simple CLI tool that tells you the weather in pirate jargon, you were asked:

• “What’s your customer acquisition channel?”
• “Are you going to offer a freemium tier with Stripe billing?”
• “Have you considered pivoting to an AI-first enterprise workflow?”

This mindset is exhausting and toxic to pure creative curiosity.

The Value of Useless Code

When you remove the obligation of success:

• You learn much faster because you aren’t afraid of writing throwaway code.
• You can experiment with esoteric technologies (like writing a toy operating system or procedural audio synths) without worrying about market size.
• You can quit a project guilt-free as soon as the educational value is exhausted.

yasp.site is dedicated to this spirit. Build things because they make you laugh, teach you a trick, or simply scratch an itch. Nothing has to succeed.