> The [Lindy Effect](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect)
> is a theorized phenomenon by which the future life expectancy of some non-perishable thing, like a technology or an idea, is proportional to its current age.

The project age is now the first thing I check when people advertise their side projects on Hacker News.  And for a surprising amount of projects, the age is less than a week.  Which makes the expected further lifespan roughly... maybe another week? 🤨

And the Lindy effect is confirmed when re-visiting the same projects a bit later, and observing that noone has worked on them.

The project website looking good, a code review that is long and sophisticated, are not a good proxy any more for anyone being actually invested in maintaining the code.  When coding is so much cheaper, **the real human moat is in taking responsibility and accountability for the long-term continuity of the work**.  This goes for code reviews as well.

It is risky for users to have dependencies on one-shot demos that are not actually maintained.