From 34 Dev.to Posts to $112,750 in Lost Dreams: What Self-Promotion Really Taught Me I started this journey thinking I'd build a revolutionary knowledge management system. Two years and 34 Dev.to posts later, I'm sitting here with a -99.4% ROI and a portfolio of lessons that might actually be worth more than the project itself. Honestly, I thought I was smart. I built a complex AI system, wrote