Graduated from nothing
Nothing → experiment → evidence → product.
Something that works should not stay branded Project Nothing forever. An experiment with repeatable demand and a ledger that covers its own costs gets its own surface and its own billing. What it keeps is the origin story — every graduated product’s experiment history stays permanently readable, including the parts where nobody was sure it would work.
What earns it
Graduation is not a reward for effort.
- 01Demand repeated. One good week is a coincidence.
- 02The ledger covers its own costs without being subsidised by the playground.
- 03It has outgrown being an experiment — the interesting questions about it are now product questions, not existence questions.
- 04Someone is willing to own it after it stops being novel.
Everything that does not clear that bar stays here, keeps running, or returns to nothing.