Why 90% of my side projects die (and the application I built to fix it)

We all have a graveyard of unfinished repos. For a long time, I thought it was a discipline issue. But after abandoning my 15th project, I realized it was an architecture problem in my own brain: Context Decay. When you take a 3-day break from a solo project, the mental energy required to remember where you left off (was I fixing the Auth hook or doing a DB migration?) and what to do next is so high that you just play video games or commit waisted hours on something related instead like unnecessary polishing or curiosity. Jira and Linear are great for teams, but for solo devs, they are just glorified spreadsheets. If you forget to update them, they become useless. The Solution: A "Self-Driving Jira" I decided to build an AI Project Director that proactively watches my workspace and tells me what to do. I call it Thrust . How I built it (The Architecture): Instead of a bulky desktop app, I built it as a lightweight Node.js daemon paired with a web dashboard. The Local Agent: A Node scri