Lumen

Built Lumen over 14 months while freelancing. The idea was: drop a schema, get a production GraphQL API with auth, subscriptions, row-level security — no glue code. Got to ~600 stars, a few production users, and an OKR of "hit 1k stars then find a co-maintainer." I never hit the OKR. I took a full-time role in November, and after two months of trying to maintain it on nights and weekends, I let it go. The codebase is solid, the docs are good, the test suite is honest. Someone who wanted to go full indie on it would have a real head start.