So, I built a tech news site and forgot to publish anything

Byteforge was supposed to be publishing news by now.

I bought the domain. I made the branding. I collected RSS feeds, GitHub repos, YouTube channels and enough sources to keep a small newsroom busy.

I even started building an automated workflow to detect relevant stories, compare sources and generate drafts.

Very cool.

There was only one small problem.

I never published anything.

Classic paralysis by analysis.

Instead of writing the first post, I kept thinking about the perfect system. Which sources should I trust? How many sources should confirm a story? Should I cover every release? Should the AI write the first draft? Should everything be reviewed manually?

You know, extremely important questions for a website with exactly zero readers and zero published articles.

The other problem is that there is simply too much news.

Every day there is a new AI model, a security vulnerability, some Linux drama, a weird acquisition, another JavaScript framework nobody asked for, or a company announcing something “revolutionary” that looks suspiciously similar to what already existed.

I kept saving links.

The backlog kept growing.

The site remained empty.

On top of that, I have been spending a lot of time in crypto co-founder meetings, product discussions and calls that somehow start as a quick sync and end two hours later with six new ideas and absolutely no free time.

So yes, Byteforge got delayed.

But I think the real mistake was believing everything had to be ready before publishing.

It does not.

The workflow can improve later. The automation can improve later. The design can improve later. I can even figure out what Byteforge actually wants to become later.

For now, it only needs one thing.

A first post.

This is it.