The Rules
Community Guidelines
Project Wrecked is a space for honest, anonymous stories about digital delivery going wrong. To keep it useful, safe, and genuinely funny (rather than vindictive), there are a few ground rules.
What we publish
We're looking for stories that are:
- Anonymous. No real names, no company names, no identifying details. Aliases only.
- Specific. The best stories have a concrete moment — a decision, a message, a launch. Vague complaints aren't stories.
- Honest. Including about your own role in what went wrong. The best submissions include the contributor's own mistakes.
- Relatable. If someone else in digital delivery can read it and say "yes, I've been there" — that's the sweet spot.
What we won't publish
- Content that identifies real individuals, companies, or projects
- Personal attacks, targeted complaints, or harassment
- Content that exposes confidential client or commercial information
- Anything that reads more like an axe-grinding session than a story
- AI-generated stories submitted as real experiences
Review process
Every submission is reviewed before it goes live. We may edit for clarity or to remove identifying details — we'll never change the substance of your story. If we decide not to publish something, we won't always be able to explain why, but the most common reasons are above.
The spirit of this place
We're cynical, but not cruel. We're on the side of the people doing the work. This isn't a place to destroy reputations — it's a place to acknowledge that digital delivery is genuinely hard, that projects go wrong for systemic reasons, and that you're not alone in having lived through it.
If your story is more about revenge than truth-telling, it probably doesn't belong here.